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Welcome to We Have Ways and Making You Talk with me, Al Murray and James Holland.

The old greeting there, Jim.

Yes, old school.

Old school, old school.

And we thought we'd, we thought we'd, well, you know,

do a kind of on this day in the Second World War

because one thing we've been doing lately is these series,

these very intense series where we look at the, we look at like a, not a single event,

but like a stretch of events centered around somewhere like Malta or the Atlantic War.

But of course, one of the things to remember about the Second World War is it is this

absolutely extraordinary, everything happening all at once

six years of meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile so we thought we do a bit of

meanwhile there's also some aob um uh that that we were talking about string bags uh quite a lot

and i think yes yes yes yes i think it's fair to say that we have been we have been

kind of uh grabbed by the the string bag haven't we by by the fleet air arm most definitely yeah

yeah yeah yeah and it's got a humble nobility to it hasn't it it? Yes, but also the crews, right?

You know, obviously what you need for that sort of role is a plane that is a plane that can take off and land in any condition.

And so, in any condition, so that's what they do.

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