James Holland

England expects our war to forget about it.

Yeah.

That's what he's thinking at the moment.

But...

One of the things that the Royal Navy have got that the Germans don't have is air capability, where they're carriers.

And this is, your regular listener will know that we very much fell in love with the Fleet Air Arm not so long ago with the raid on Taranto and then the incredible efforts in the chase of the Bismarck and the Channel Dash.

The Royal Navy, and we did a brief history of the Fleet Air Arm, didn't we, to preface that story.

Swordfish thing.

The Navy's fully bought into the idea of naval air power.

They are absolutely pioneering in this.

And so what we're going to have is an air attack to come.

We're going to get these skuas coming in, but there is a problem with air, isn't there?

It's extraordinary, this, isn't it?

In this weather and blah, blah, blah.

Because the Royal Navy has stolen a march on the, not entirely the rest of the world, but they are well ahead on using air power, aren't they?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they don't.

Because there's still this lassitude, which I actually think has a couple of years to run on the British side of things.

Yeah, yeah.

And taking Norfolk.