The First Battle of Britain by Stan Stokes. (B) SIG912 and the high cost of

and the high cost of maintaining the Blackbird fleet

of the nineteen Lancasters sent out from RAF Scampton

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the forerunner to the Spitfire which would become so famous during World War Two

The First Battle of Britain by Stan Stokes. (B) SIG912 and the high cost ofSTK0008B. The First Battle of Britain by Stan Stokes. By the Spring of 1917 the Western Front had been stalemated for more than two years with the armies of Germany and the Allies deadlocked in static trench warfare. At sea, the fleets of both Germany and Great Britain were also at a strategic impasse following the inconclusive Battle of Jutland in 1916. The unrestricted U Boat campaign in the Atlantic had resulted in Americas entry into the War, and