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Episode 220, The Battle About Britain Part 4, The Channel War.

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Over July and August, 1940, on both sides of the English

channel, two different groups of leaders would be working and preparing for the opposite side

of the invasion question. The British would be frantically preparing to stop a German invasion

by whatever means necessary, while the Germans were trying to determine how to make

that invasion happen.

While these preparations were underway, a battle would already be taking place, which

can reasonably be considered the first phase of the Battle of Britain.

This battle would take place over the English Channel, and would see many aerial battles,

and would become known as the

Channel Battle, or Canal Comph. Unlike some of the other phases of the battle, which have an exact

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