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Attention, attention which is of course English for Achtung Achtung. Perhaps it should be Tally Ho, Tally Ho today James.

Yes, it should be really simple. Tally Ho, Tally Ho, after all. It's Battle of Britain day today, isn't it?

There's no other language to introduce.

A little job seen at Angels 18.

A friend of mine, South African comic said that his dad was in the South African Air Force and they all still used Tally Ho.

Tally Ho, Tally Ho, Tally Ho.

I'm on it, Pete.

Well, anyway, we've done an awful lot. I think it's fair to say an awful lot on the Battle of Britain in recent months.

I know you've enjoyed it enormously, but it is a subject we do like to return to and we know, dear listener, you don't mind the occasional mention of Spitfires and fighting in the skies over Kent.

And, well, James Holland, who knows a thing or two about the subject is with me, of course, James, a simple question there.

Very often, I mean, very often, sometimes you have to ask the sort of, you do have to ask the daft question sometimes, because maybe they go unanswered.

I mean, after all, you know, it's the 17th of September soon and that's when they celebrate the Battle of Arnhem because, or commemorate the Battle of Arnhem because that's when it began.

Right? That's pretty easy.

But the Battle of Britain did not begin on September the 15th. Why today? Why not Adletag? Why the 15th?

Well, I think it was because it was seen as the sort of culmination of the battle and it was also reported at the time as the day of heaviest Luftwaffe losses.

Right.

It was 174 and it took a little while to kind of sort of unravel that and show that actually it wasn't anything like that. It was actually only 161.

But, you know, that's not a hit all there.

And also, I think it was a very visible battle. It was a very clear sunny day. It was sort of actually not at all dissimilar to today.

You know, warm mid-September weather, blue skies, a few fluffy, white cumulus, and that was it.

And I suppose because the two big raids of the day focused over London and London was the biggest city, of course, in the centre of the whole British Empire and all the rest of it.

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