Episode 47 - Black Thursday
Episode notes
This episode of History Date Night covers, June 11th through the 13th.
We watch a French admiral make a promise about his navy's fate that's going to affect how the war moves forward. We watch a handful of armored cars open an entirely new theater of the war in the North African desert. And we’ll see the Fleet Air Arm's no good very bad day unfold in the Arctic, in an operation most everyone knew, going in, was a mistake.
This episode also has three lone biplane fighters, nicknamed Faith, Hope, and Charity, standing as the entire air defense of the island of Malta. It has tens of thousands of Allied troops trapped against the French coast once again. And it has a French Marshal so ashamed of the letter he's written that he can't bring himself to show it to his own Prime Minister.