James Holland

And what that means is that you're not on the ground when the enemy are coming towards you with their bombers to hit your airfield, which means you're in the air so that all they're doing is hitting a grass airfield.

which you've already got bulldozers and diggers and graders and lots of scalpings and earth ready to fill in the potholes.

And it means you're good to go.

And it means as a consequence of all that, when the Germans do launch their all out assault on Adler Tag, Eagle Day on the 13th of August, 1940, the British are ready. You know, they can see them coming. They know what to expect and they can anticipate. And it means that they're not being caught with their trousers down on the ground.

And it means as a consequence of all that, when the Germans do launch their all out assault on Adler Tag, Eagle Day on the 13th of August, 1940, the British are ready. You know, they can see them coming. They know what to expect and they can anticipate. And it means that they're not being caught with their trousers down on the ground.

And it means as a consequence of all that, when the Germans do launch their all out assault on Adler Tag, Eagle Day on the 13th of August, 1940, the British are ready. You know, they can see them coming. They know what to expect and they can anticipate. And it means that they're not being caught with their trousers down on the ground.

And it means as a consequence of all that, when the Germans do launch their all out assault on Adler Tag, Eagle Day on the 13th of August, 1940, the British are ready.

You know, they can see them coming.

They know what to expect and they can anticipate.

And it means that they're not being caught with their trousers down on the ground.

And as a consequence of that, of the 138 airfields there are in, RAF airfields there are in Britain, only one of them is knocked out for more than 48 hours in the entire summer of 1940.

And as a consequence of that, of the 138 airfields that are in, RAF airfields that are in Britain, only one of them is knocked out for more than 48 hours in the entire summer of 1940. And that's Manston on the tip of the Kent coast, which is abandoned for the duration. So these are the two biggest air forces.

And as a consequence of that, of the 138 airfields that are in, RAF airfields that are in Britain, only one of them is knocked out for more than 48 hours in the entire summer of 1940. And that's Manston on the tip of the Kent coast, which is abandoned for the duration. So these are the two biggest air forces.

And as a consequence of that, of the 138 airfields that are in, RAF airfields that are in Britain, only one of them is knocked out for more than 48 hours in the entire summer of 1940. And that's Manston on the tip of the Kent coast, which is abandoned for the duration. So these are the two biggest air forces.

And that's Manston on the tip of the Kent coast, which is abandoned for the duration.

So these are the two biggest air forces.

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uh the legendary the terrifying air force they are maybe maybe they're slightly believing their own hype there's no question about well the rest of the world is also right they've just had it too easy so they don't have they don't have ground controllers they don't have an air defense system in in germany because why would you need an air defense system we're going to be the aggressor you know there's no scenario where we'll have to defend the

uh the legendary the terrifying air force they are maybe maybe they're slightly believing their own hype there's no question about well the rest of the world is also right they've just had it too easy so they don't have they don't have ground controllers they don't have an air defense system in in germany because why would you need an air defense system we're going to be the aggressor you know there's no scenario where we'll have to defend the

uh the legendary the terrifying air force they are maybe maybe they're slightly believing their own hype there's no question about well the rest of the world is also right they've just had it too easy so they don't have they don't have ground controllers they don't have an air defense system in in germany because why would you need an air defense system we're going to be the aggressor you know there's no scenario where we'll have to defend the