The Battle of Britain Part 4 - Doom of the Luftwaffe

01.17 A Word From My New Sponsor
02.14 Agenda for the Day
03.05 - It Begins
06:20 - Cunning Plan II - The Stukas Strike Back
08:36 - Cunning Plan III - Return of the Geschwader
12:50 - Getting High With Some Friends
16:40 - Which Plane Is Better
18:53 - Why the .303 wasn't quite as shit as you think
22:00 - A Discussion of Hurricanes
23:19 - Luftwaffe vs RAF
27:27 - Cunning Plan IV A New Hope
31:13 - Tosspot Mallory Rides Again
33:55 - Channel Fever
35:00 - Bomber Command
37:40 - The Final Phase

The fourth and final part of a series in which your Lordly host will guide you through some of the key aspects of one of the largest air battles in world history, and show you some sights and sounds you may not have heard before

This time the planes, the tactics, the culture of the beligerents, as well as a narrative description of some of the key elements of fighting.

As ever I reserve the right to be wrong, but I have done my best to research this as throughtly as I can and have leant heavily on various key books and sources noted below

Hit and Kill stats are always a bit open to interpretation, but result from some close study of the numbers by people much cleverer than I – if you want to look them up have a shufti at Stepehn’s Bungay’s Most Dangerous Enemy, and his source material, Peter Cornwell’s The Battle of Britain Then and Now from 1982. Cornwell spent the late 1960s and all of the 1970s looking at loss reports and tabulating them from records from both sides and is a seminal, if dense, work.

Peter Townsend’s “Time and Chance” is also worth a read if you can get a copy

Battle of Britain Film – 303 Go into combat - https://fb.watch/kRQpCGab9W/

https://www.battleofbritain1940.net/0034.html - Hitler speech 4th September 1940

Sandhurst War Game of Sealion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion_(wargame)

The Dumbest Drug Dealer in Britain Award goes to - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9287445/Britains-dumbest-criminal-Drug-dealer-snapped-himself-with-bags-of-cannabis-and-crown-of-20-notes.html

Kanalkrankheit – fear of the channel waters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanalkrankheit

Dortmound-Ems Canal Raids - https://www.militaryhistories.co.uk/canal_raids/dekhistory

Operation Sealion 1974 https://youtu.be/kenvVK3U7qc