Blood and Guts 2: British Aircraft of WWII (d20)
There have been few¸ if any¸ times in history when a nation's air force proved as important as the British Royal Air Force did during the dark¸ early days of WWII. Europe lay at Hitler's feet and a British Expeditionary Force had fled the Nazi war machine at Dunkirk¸ leaving Hitler in control of Western Europe. Only one power remained defiant against him: Britain and their "war monger" leader (as Hitler would often describe him)¸ Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Nazi plan for the invasion of Britain¸ Operation Sealion¸ required air supremacy to work¸ in order to counter British control of the seas. The resulting air battle¸ known to history as the Battle of Britain¸ has become one of the legendary air battles in the history of the world. It not only prevented Operation Sealion from being attempted¸ it was the first crack in the faÃÆ'Ã'§ade of Nazi invulnerability. This work provides statistics for the major British planes that fought for the British in WWII¸ allowing the game master to bring the Battle of Britain and many other famous air encounters into his Modern WWII games. Includes the following aircraft: Albemarle (1940)¸ Blackburn Roc (1939)¸ Blackburn Skua (1938)¸ Boulton Paul Defiant (1939)¸ Bristol Beaufighter (1940)¸ De Havilland Mosquito (1941)¸ Fairey Albacore (1941)¸ Fairey Barracuda (1943)¸ Fairey Firefly (1943)¸ Fairey Fulmar (1940)¸ Fairey Swordfish (1939)¸ Gloster Meteor (1944)¸ Hawker Hurricane (1937)¸ Hawker Typhoon (1941)¸ Lancaster (1942)¸ Supermarine Spitfire (1938)¸ Westland Whirlwind (1940).