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"In military terms Scilly was under-prepared for the Second World War. Civilian preparations were well in hand - gas masks and stirrup pumps had been distributed, air-raid sirens installed and shelters built in 1939. However, in the summer of 1940 the islands were defended by just one Independent Company of troops, with their HQ at Star Castle, and there were no anti-aircraft defences and no significant naval presence." https://books.google.com/books?id=IOkqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66

A Scilly Sealion?!
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