Employing their fast " lightning war" technique, called " Blitzkrieg, " Hitler's mighty tanks and high-tech air force, the Luftwaffe, swept across Europe.
The Luftwaffe had more planes than Britain, but the Germans miscalculated how many planes Britain had, as well as their fighting spirit to save their homeland.
The planes landed in the blockaded city and local volunteers provided support on the ground. Former mechanics of the Luftwaffe, the German air force, joined Americans in servicing the aircraft.
Luckily, the Royal Air Force also learned important lessons – they were vastly outnumbered but couldn't allow the Luftwaffe to attack without any resistance.
He was especially critical of the failure to create a new modern, well-appointed British air-force and the rapidity with which the German Luftwaffe overtook the British RAF from 1935 onwards.
An effort to join the Luftwaffe, the German air-force which had been constituted under the command of Herman Goering in the mid-1930s, was also rejected, as Skorzeny's height was an issue.