James Holland
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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
And that's obviously, the Blitz stops just, you know, five weeks before Barbarossa.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
Yes, they have.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
They've lost 200 transport aircraft.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
Which means that their ability to send in Fallschirmjäger paratroopers.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
Resupply by air is literally zip.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
Yeah, yeah.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
Game over.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
How to lose a war.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
Yeah.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
And their production is going downhill.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
So aircraft production is going down.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
So it's really interesting.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
You think of the kind of mastery of the Luftwaffe and all the rest of it.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
But actually in 1941, Britain produces 20,094 aircraft.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
It's a lot.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
They produced more aircraft in 1941 than any other nation on the planet.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
They receive another 19,433 from America.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
Germany only makes 11,776 at that time.
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Visionaries: A Global War (Part 4)
So it's almost half of what Britain's making.