Episode 365-The Spitfires Are Coming!

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The RAF on Malta actually run out of Hurricane fighters on March 3rd. Fortunately, the promised Spitfires arrive. But how are 15 Spitfires supposed to hold back the entirety of Kesselring’s air arm of Italian and German planes. The dark time for Malta are far from over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama.
0:05.6	The young gentleman's name would be...
0:08.3	Oliver, Oliver Twist.
0:10.7	...with Brian Cox as Fagan.
0:12.9	What have you seen?
0:14.1	Street boy.
0:14.9	Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Caluia as Bill Sykes.
0:19.3	Oh, look at me like a hello to my lawyer.
0:21.3	I love you, baby.
0:22.3	...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells.
0:25.7	Subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms.
0:31.8	There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because I'm bit for homebody and I love a five.
0:37.9	But I think it's just the holiday period.
0:40.1	It's just for me, it's the most romantic period.
0:44.0	And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.
0:48.8	Joy and every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
1:04.7	Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War Two podcast.
1:10.2	Episode 365, the Spitfires are coming.
1:14.9	But London had longer ago figured out as goes Malta so goes North Africa.
1:20.6	But as January 1942 ended, those same people in London were shown that as goes North Africa so goes Malta.
1:29.5	As in, they were linked and things were not going well on Malta or in North Africa at the moment.
1:36.7	To be sure, Warby and the other reconnaissance crews were doing their part as best they could.
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