Andy Chatterton

did struggle and the effectiveness of the Stuka, the dive bomber plane.

I mean, Goering's a confident guy anyway, right?

But now, after France, he is super confident.

He didn't think the RAF stands a chance.

Well, the navy wants quite a narrow invasion period because they realise that the Royal Navy is the largest and strongest navy in the world.

And so they want a narrow window to operate in.

The army wants a wide window to operate in because they don't want to be stuck in a narrow zone where the British army can concentrate the counter-attack.

immediately there's a real issue with the invasion plans because everyone has different objectives, have different plans and it goes for Hitler's whole approach throughout the war is to not give one general or one armed force the superiority and that's exactly demonstrated in his plans for the

OK.

Exactly, because they're more dispersed and they know where they're coming and we don't.

The British don't know where they're coming, so we're going to have to disperse our limited reserves.

And we got 300,000-odd troops back from Dunkirk, but they're still recovering, frankly.

And the whole of the German military force is incredibly confident this could happen, perhaps apart from the Navy, who see the reality of what the Royal Navy is capable of.

Yeah, and they were getting in thousands of river barges that were going to transport the troops across, either to be tugged across or with their own engine.

And, you know, if you're in a flat-bottom river barge going across the Channel, it's... Yeah, I think people could think about a sort of canal boat almost.

Yes, exactly right.

It's absolutely bonkers.

No, they're not.

They're not.

Exactly right.