Hitler called off the offensive on September 19 (5/10)

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Having suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of a nation who the entire world had considered to be greatly militarily inferior to the seemingly unstoppable German war machine, Hitler called off Luftwaffe forces and shifted his attention eastwards to Russia. For the remainder of the war, the war effort against Britain would involve mostly naval blockades supplemented by the Luftwaffe as opposed to any direct fighting, until British-American forces invaded the coastline of France just a couple of years later.

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