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Episode 57 - Turn to the East
On this episode of History Date Night, Justin and Jennie cover July 27th through August 2nd 1940. The air war over the Channel is no longer a series of individual battles. It is becoming a sustained campaign, and this week it forces the Royal Navy to abandon Dover as a forward destroyer base. At the same time Hitler sits down with his commanders and begins to look past Britain toward the Soviet Union.
But Hitler doesn't stop his plans for Britain as he issues Directive No. 17, ordering an intensified air and sea offensive to create the conditions for the final conquest of England. Also a…
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