Nazi air raids on the British Isles

Could someone please elaborate on the various stages the raids on the British Isles? When did the raids on the airfields start? Didn't the raids shift (accidentally as I seem to remember) to civilian airfields and thus save the RAF? When did V-1 and V-2 attacks start and stop? When did actual plane raids stop, and did they stop sort of en masse or did they continue with nuisance raids?
I realize that this is a lot to ask, but I am really curious. I looked online, and mainly only found stuff on Nincompedia (a source I do NOT trust!) and so am turning to the folks in the know. Thank you.

 

Have you Googled for the London Blitz?
Without going into specifics, the Luftwaffe were bombing RAF airfields when Hitler switched to bombing London and then other cities in late 1940 and into 1941. most major UK cities took a pounding but only strengthened most peoples resolve. (look up Baedekker raids).
Then the Germans focussed more on the Russian offensive so raids became more "hit and run" or nuisance raids, (although some major raids were still launched) until in 1944 the V1 "doodlebug" offensive was launched, followed in the Sept of '44 by the V2 rockets (the first one exploded about a mile from where I now live).
The Germans had developed aerial bombing with attacks on places such as Guernica in the Spanish Civil War, Warsaw and Rotterdam were also heavily bombed with poor anti aircraft defences. The RAF bomber campaign (combined later with USAAF daylight bombing) absorbed a huge amount of German war effort which denied equipment and men to adequately defend its conquests leading ultimately to victory in 1945.
A huge price was paid by both sides. Bombing didn't stop until VE Day.

This is too big a subject to be adequately explained so briefly, but thousands of people have spent years on just one or two aspects of the subject, so there is no "quick" answer.

Hopefully, you'll now start more in depth research and if I have helped, I'll have some of your royalties!!

 

You might find this site a good starting place, I keep it in my faves for quick referrence.

Goto:

The Battle of Britain - Home Page

There are many sub-links included so be sure and open them up and look through them as well.

 

First I don`t Believe that there was any Nazi`s Air Raids in WWII.

The “Blitz” September 7, 1940 - 1944
The “Blitz” September 7, 1940-1944 - World War II Multimedia Database


U-boat Inshore Campaign - With the start of the British Isles Inshore Campaign, U-boats sunk off Norway and in the Western Approaches as well as the Bay of Biscay are included in the European theatre. The same applies to the Royal Navy and German surface warships lost.

British Isles Inshore Campaign - As the campaign continued, there were losses on both sides: 15th/16th - Off the Clyde, Scotland on the 15th, "U-482" torpedoed a merchantman and badly damaged escort carrier "THANE" (not repaired and laid up) ferrying aircraft from Northern Ireland. After a long hunt the U-boat was sunk next day by frigate "Loch Craggie" and sloops "Amethyst", "Hart", "Peacock" and "Starling" of the 22nd EG. 21st - After torpedoing a merchant ship from a Thames/ Bristol Channel convoy, "U-1199" was sunk close to Lands End by escorting destroyer "lcarus" and corvette "Mignonette". 26th - "U-1172" severely damaged frigate "MANNERS" (constructive total loss) off the Isle of Man and was sunk in the counter-attack by sister ships "Aylmer", "Bentinck" and "Calder" of the 4th and 5th EGs. 27th - Further south in St George's Channel, and after attacking Halifax/UK convoy HX322, "U-1051" was sunk by frigates "Bligh", "Keats" and "Tyler" of the 5th EG. One more U-boat was lost in UK waters, possibly mined off the Moray Firth, and others were destroyed and damaged in air-raids on Germany.

Normandy, British, Isles, Inshore, Thane, Manners, Walpole, Icarus, Amethyst, Hart, Peacock, Starling, HMS

 

Is there maybe a good timeline of the Battle of Britain? I will be teaching an extra class next year after school, for students who have one or both parents in the military. The class is sort of an optional class on military history, and while it seems stupid to have me teaching it (considering that I am asking this question), I really do know a bit more about other military history than it seems. One of the term projects for one of the groups will be to do a timeline of WW2. Another will be WW1, the US War for Independence, the American Civil War, the development of weapons, and other things along those lines. More details will be put in over the summer.

 

I'd suggest looking here: http://www.ww2f.com/information-req...wwii-related-research-i-e-family-history.html - if you look through this thread there is a series of posts in which I divided links up by topic and one set is about timelines, as well as doing a search of this Forum. The air war and attacks on Britain has been discussed several times and had various threads about it. Most probably here: http://www.ww2f.com/air-war-western-europe-1939-1945/