Operation Sealion

Top: A bicycle section of the Royal West Kents skirmishes with German elements in the English countryside c.1940
Bottom: German defectors is arrested by the British Home Guard

Date	July 10, 1940 – November 3, 1940 (3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Location	Southern England, United Kingdom
Result	United Kingdom and Allied victory German troops fail to land in Britain German command abandons plans to invade Britain

Belligerents

United Kingdom

German Reich

Commanders and leaders

Henry Page Croft

Edward VIII

Hugh Dowding

Quintin Brand

Keith Park

Adolf Hitler

Herman Goering

Albert Kesselring †

Strength

37,500 soldiers

89,780 soldiers

Casualties and losses

<1,000

~62,000