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

Episode 92, Interwar Airpower Part 1, so close, yet so far.

Before we get started today, I wanted to let you know that on June 25th, I will be speaking

at the Intelligence Speech 2022 conference.

This is a fully online event where I will be joined by over 35 other historians and history

podcasters to discuss a wide range of topics.

I will be giving a talk entitled The Correct Wrong Choice,

the Interwar Years and Results-based Analysis, in which I will chat a bit about how we should

approach discussions about events that happen before major events like the Second World War.

During the session, there will be an opportunity for some Q&A, which was a ton of fun when I did this event last year.

If you register before June 1st, you can get the Early Bird Special for just $20, and you can use my code second, that's the word second, to at checkout so that they know that you heard about it from me.

You can find a link in the show notes to the event, or you can head

on over to Intelligent Speechconference.com to register or find out more information. Now back to our

regularly scheduled programming. Between the period 1914 and 1945, there would be no area of military

technology that would advance more than that in the realm of air power.

In 1914, the militaries of the world had small numbers of fragile, wooden-framed air machines

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