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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War.

Episode 228, the Battle of Britain Part 3, New Plans.

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the Second World War.com slash members to find out more. Just like on August 14th, the forecasts for August 19th made it clear

that weather was going to be an issue, and this time the forecasts were correct. This allowed the

Luftwaffe leadership to once again assemble to review what had taken place so far over the

previous days and what they planned to do moving forward.

There was a growing urgency to these discussions because already by the 19th, the Luftwaffe's

plans were already falling behind schedule. The most optimistic estimates had been that the

RAF could be beaten in only a matter of days, with the most optimistic among the Luftwaffe staff,

believing that it could be done in only three days. But by the 19th, it had been six days.

And yet every time the Luftwaffe sent planes to over Britain, fighter command rose to meet them

in considerable numbers. At the same time that the Luftwaffe leaders were at Gerrings' headquarters

at Karen

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