Some British millennials think
Battle of Britain was Viking invasion: survey
Story by Stephen J. Thorne
Forty-four per cent of respondents to a recent British survey had no idea what the Battle of Britain was. A third of those aged 18-24 did know what it was, but another 30 per cent admitted they had no idea about the 1940 air battle that saved the islands from Nazi occupation.
Two-thirds of millennials who responded to the survey confused it with other military or political events:
- 12 per cent of respondents aged 18-24 believed it to be a First World War fight for supremacy over the English Channel;
- nine per cent said it was the civil war fought between England and Scotland in 1646;
- six per cent called it a Viking invasion;
- and three per cent said it was the 2019 general election.
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