Kanalkampf
{'<entity_0>': 'Battle of Britain', '<entity_1>': 'Royal Air Force', '<entity_2>': 'English Channel', '<entity_3>': 'Kanalkampf', '<entity_4>': 'Luftwaffe', '<entity_5>': '04 July 1940'}
[['Kanalkampf', 'part of', 'Battle of Britain'], ['Kanalkampf', 'participant', 'Royal Air Force'], ['Kanalkampf', 'participant', 'Luftwaffe'], ['Kanalkampf', 'location', 'English Channel'], ['Kanalkampf', 'start time', '04 July 1940']]
The <entity_3> (Channel Fight) was the German term for air operations by the <entity_4> against the British <entity_1> (RAF) over the <entity_2> in <entity_5>. During the <entity_3>, the <entity_4> received modest support from shore artillery and the E-Boats of the Kriegsmarine (German navy). During the <entity_3> the Germans assembled powerful air forces to attack convoys in the Channel but it took about forty days after the French capitulation, for the <entity_4> to begin its assault on the Britain. As the <entity_3> continued, Enigma gave more notice of targets, timing and the size raids but this was sometimes too late to be useful and <entity_4> changes at short-notice could negate the information. In the morning of <entity_5>, the <entity_4> attacked Portland harbour, with Messerschmitt Bf 110s from V.(Z)./Lehrgeschwader 1 (LG 1: Experimental Wing) and two Staffeln (squadrons) of Messerschmitt Bf 109s from I./Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1: Fighter Wing) (renamed III./Jagdgeschwader 27 -JG 27- the next day) were ordered to escort Junkers Ju 87 Stukas of II./Sturzkampfgeschwader 51 (StG 51, renamed II./Sturzkampfgeschwader 1 StG 1, the next day). Losses to the <entity_4> were only a small proportion of the 4,000,000 long tons (4,100,000 t) of shipping which sailed along the south coast during the <entity_3> but at its peak, the <entity_4> anti-shipping campaign damaged or sank ​1⁄3 of the ships off the south coast. The <entity_3> began the <entity_0>; the Germans needed time to establish airfields along the French and Belgian coasts for the air assault on south-east England and to replace the losses of May and June.
['conflict']