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Acton Acton! Welcome to We Have Ways To Make You Talk With Me, Al Murray and James

Follon, your second World War Podcast.

Okay. 19 September. British move three tank brigades to a central southern position

and two infantry brigades as well. Railway gangs drafted into London for repairs. Two

agents dropped in Calais, Laave, Keel and Antwerp. Infantry radio chatter heard from Keel.

Royal Navy continually patrolling off Chroma, the German Deception Plan vessels sail.

1700 hours, coastal command in North CC, Cone, Nernberg, Emden, Bremse which are diversion

sailing to the Yorkshire coast. Units in the North Sea alerted, especially reinforced.

1800 hours, Condor site Tachemis Norfolk, Newcastle and further south, K-Class 5K-Class

destroys. German Airstrike of 10-2017s goes in and slightly damages Newcastle.

1830 hours, the two forces meet, Emden and Bremse lost. British likely hit except Norfolk

which was returned to base for some repairs.

Jim, these are the opening moves. The opening salvos on the 19 September in Operation

Sealine. The Germans are finally going ahead with their trying to prepare the battlefield

here for a full amphibious landing on the 21st September 1940. These are from the log

of the war game at Sandhurst in conjunction with Campbelli and the daily telegraph from

January 1974. It's the most amazing thing. There's a seven day battle log. They ran seven

days of an invasion and the two days prepped for it basically. They ran seven days of the

invasion and they ran it to the point where basically the Germans evacuate and bug out

and only get only I think six thousand men back to France.

How many put in the bag? 32,000 men are captured are in the bag. The landings go horribly

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