Britain prepares for invasion

3rd September 1941: A critical eye is passed over Britain's Army at home

Sep 3, 2021

Men of the 12th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment in training at Hengistbury Head near Bournemouth, Dorset. Wearing his gas mask, a soldier advances through a smoke screen.

There were many, not just in Germany, who believed that Soviet Russia could not last more than a few months under the Nazi onslaught. In Britain, where the invasion scare had been at its …

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