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The village of Brede in East Sussex awoke to the sight of a company of German paratroopers tumblíng out of a late September sky in a daring attempt to cut the supply route to heavily defended Hastings to the south. …

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The village of Brede in East Sussex awoke to the sight of a company of German paratroopers tumblíng out of a late September sky in a daring attempt to cut the supply route to heavily defended Hastings to the south. The local defense force, consisting of WWl veterans, farm workers and schoolboys, scrambled to meet the invader, taking up position in the local church and ringing the belis: the signal that an invasion of Britain had begun! Among the defenders was 19 year old lan Peasley who shouldered his father's Lee Enfield Mk.3. Peasley took to the bell tower, determined that the first enemy to darken British soil in over 900 years would have more to contend with than the peal of church bells. Reinforcements were dispatched from nearby forces as the defenders hunkered in the old stone building listening to the repeated crack of Peasley's rifle.

Brede, England

Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion, was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France, Adolf Hitler, the German Führer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, hoped the British government would seek a peace agreement and he reluctantly considered invasion only as a last resort if all other options failed.

Wikipedia: Operation Sea Lion

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