On this day 1940 the #BattleofBritain is commonly considered to have reached its peak. Most commonly associated with the image of the pilots, ground crew & controllers of of ACM Sir Hugh Dowding's @RoyalAirForce Fighter Command, the events of summer 1940 were far broader #WW2

Even within the rest of the @RoyalAirForce aircrews & their support teams from A/M Charles Portals Bomber Command kept up a ferocious pace attacking targets in Germany & France, including French airfields the Luftwaffe were flying from to hit London & Fighter Command's airfields

While ACM Sir Frederick Bowhill's Coastal Command was busy laying mines, attacking shipping & keping a watchful eye over the Channel for any invasion (along with hunting for U-boats attacking Allied shipping in the renewed #BattleOfTheAtlantic).
All suffered casualties throughout

The @RoyalNavy was, of course, also busy, contributing two of its own fighter squadrons - 804 & 808 Naval Air Squadrons - to the strength of ACM Dowding's @RoyalAirForce Fighter Command https://twitter.com/navalhistorian/status/1297527037633146881?s=20

While another 23 or so @RoyalNavy pilots were embedded directly into @RoyalAirForce Fighter Command squadrons. Childhood friends S/Lt Richard "Dickie" Cork & S/Lt Arthur "Admiral" Blake flew with 242 & 19 Squadron respectively. Blake would be shot down & killed on 29th October.

S/LT Cork flew as wingman to his squadron leader, legendary @RoyalAirForce fighter ace & amputee Sqn/Ldr Douglas Bader, ending the ' #BattleOfBritain as an ace going on to become one of the @RoyalNavy's highest scoring pilots, tragically dying in an accident at Trincomalee in 1944

Perhaps the highest scorer among the @RoyalNavy pilots however, was S/Lt Francis Dawson-Paul who flew with @RoyalAirForce 64 Sqn, scoring a remarkable seven victories through July 1940 before being shot down on the 25th, dying of his wounds 5 days later. http://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Dawson-Paul.htm

The stories of "Dickie" Cork, "Admiral" Blake, Francis Dawson-Paul & S/Lt Richard Gardner who flew with Cork in Bader's 242 Sqn (mangnificently decorating his Hurricane with Lord Nelson's famous Battle of Trafalgar signal!) are told in @beaver_paul's book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forgotten-Few-Paul-Beaver/dp/0993554539

Just for anyone who wants to see: @RoyalNavy S/Lt Richard Gardner's @RoyalAirForce Hawker Hurricane, proudly bearing Lord Nelson's legendary flag signal "England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty" #BattleOfBritain #WW2 (courtesy of @RNASYeovilton) https://twitter.com/RNASYeovilton/status/1295686989359001600?s=20

The ships of the @RoyalNavy were also far from idle during the #BattleOfBritain too.
This #thread gives some idea of some of the activities in home waters, ranging from guarding against invasion, to aircraft carrier strikes to transporting Britain's gold. https://twitter.com/navalhistorian/status/1305262430394646536?s=20

There was also those constructing & manning the vast network of land defences that were being build to stop any prospective invasion & those working in the fields, factories & shipyards that kept Britain's war effort going.
The #BattleOfBritain was simply a huge, national effort.