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Hello everyone and welcome to another set of older member episodes that are being released here on the main episode feed.

This series of episodes covers the Interwar Royal Navy, which seemed appropriate as the podcast is about to start its episodes on the Battle of Britain.

In fact, that's what I'm working on right now, which is why you're hearing this.

There will be six episodes in total released

over the next six weeks as I get this next series on the Battle of Britain kind of sorted

out, prepared, and ready for release. Thank you for your patience, and here's the episode.

Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, Members Episode 16.

We're going to close out our series of episodes on the Royal Navy with a discussion of how the Royal Navy trained for the war, the final preparations for September 1939, and then what happened immediately

after the start of hostilities.

Over the last five episodes, we have discussed in some detail the ships that the Royal Navy

was building and where they planned to use them around the world.

But in this episode, we will get a bit more detailed about how they were preparing to fight

a war, and then the frantic nature of

the preparations as war appeared to be just months, weeks, and then days away. It was in those

months and then the early months of the war, when all of the British preparation and planning

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