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On 14th September 1940 the Battleship REVENGE and light cruiser EMERALD departed the Clyde escorted by the destroyers MACKAY, WESTCOTT, SCIMITAR and SKATE arriving at Plymouth on the 15th. I remember reading somewhere that on the 14th that this group of ships were shadowed for a little...

On September 3rd Göring called a meeting at The Hague with two of his commanders, Kesselring and Sperle. Kesselring proposed that the attacks on Britain should be switched from fighter airfields to the city of London, but Sperle did not agree stating that the RAF had more reserves than they...

Looking back at to September 1940 the major Ships of the Royal Navy were pretty thinly spread. In total there were 11 Battleships and 3 Battlecruisers of which 2 were being repaired or refitted, 3 were stationed off the West African coast as part of Force M, 4 were in the Med and 5 stationed in...

During the planning phase of Overlord the British offered specialised engineering armour to the their U.S. counterparts. Call it pride or over-confidence in their own troops but they refused the help (with the exception of the swimming DD tanks, probably the least effective of the funnies). On...

I'm sure most have heard this one ... During the BoB there was a plan to withdraw units of the RAF to a position north of the Thames, outside of the effective range of the Bf 109, if things were getting tough. This plan was to enable the RAF to continue the defence of Britain but in a lesser...

I don't know the details on this one ... what ships were in harbour etc. but given the date I thought it might be an interesting topic.

I recently wrote an article for a Mexican magazine in which I provided an alternate history which included a successful German Invasion of Britian in 1940. I was pointed in the direction of this site and told to avoid alternatehistory.com. But instead I decided to join and read your views. I...