Operation Banquet (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Operation Banquet was a British plan to use every available aircraft in a last ditch effort to repel an expected German invasion in 1940 or 1941. During the Second World War, in May 1940, the Air Ministry realised that the Royal Air Force (RAF) could be called upon to play its part in a struggle to repel a German invasion. It was foreseen that, beyond the normal reserves of the RAF, it may be necessary to throw everything into a last ditch battle for British liberty. To this end, the Air Ministry planned to use just about anything that could fly. On 17 May 1940, an Air Ministry meeting outlined a series of ambitious plans to make use of various aircraft in the event of an invasion. With the Fall of France in July 1940, the Germans threatened to invade Britain. The British Government made frantic efforts to prepare to meet the threatened invasion and the RAF engaged the German Luftwaffe in a struggle for air superiority over Britain in what became known as the Battle of Britain.