My grandparents were of the generation which experienced WW2 from start to finish. To the day they passed all of them and many people of the same age were convinced "If the Germans had landed in the UK that was it".
As others have pointed out ITT with hindsight we know different, but what I find interesting is while high level military chiefs would have realised what a disaster it would have been this was not disclosed to reassure the public.
I've always wondered if this was a deliberate if undisclosed policy in the knowledge the Germans would recieve the dam good kicking they richly deserved if they went ahead with sea mammal
As others have pointed out ITT with hindsight we know different, but what I find interesting is while high level military chiefs would have realised what a disaster it would have been this was not disclosed to reassure the public.
I've always wondered if this was a deliberate if undisclosed policy in the knowledge the Germans would recieve the dam good kicking they richly deserved if they went ahead with sea mammal