DBWI: Could Operation Sledgehammer have succeeded?

Before the Reich was victorious in the second Weltkrieg, the Allied forces had put a plan together, Operation Sledgehammer, to invade the coast of Normandy, scheduled for 1942. Now, we all know the operation was silly, fanciful, and would never have worked. But that's not what I want to talk about.

What if the war had turned sour for the Reich and its allies? Suppose that, for the sake of argument, the war effort was mired by some sort of calamity or series of calamities (the Soviet Union breaking the truce comes to mind). Might that have given the Allies enough time to formulate a plan that could have actually succeeded?

P.S., I see the sticky but I think this scenario is different enough that it might warrant additional discussion.
 

Spengler

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MOst definitely this of course would have required that stalin didn't die of a heart attack in 1942. I'm just happy that President Goldwater solved Americas reich problem in 78' it killed twenty million Americans but it was worth it.
 
Oh crap. You've spoken of the Unmentionable Melee Weapon.

Sometimes n00bs never learn....

Listen, I know it seems great on paper, but the rule of cool DOES NOT APPLY. The Luftwaffe could chew up any invading force in the channel. The Atlantic Wall was very strong especially around Calais, the reasonably invasion point. They had huge blockhouses, deep trench works and enough MG's and mortars to make mincemeat of any invasion. And then in reserve they had enough tanks to destroy any landing! Even then, granting all of this is handwaved and the allies get a beachead. the U-boat campaign had halted shipping in the Atlantic well enough that getting the nessecary material and reinforcements through to follow up the landings with a offensive is ASB.
 
MOst definitely this of course would have required that stalin didn't die of a heart attack in 1942. I'm just happy that President Goldwater solved Americas reich problem in 78' it killed twenty million Americans but it was worth it.

Yeah I still can't believe that he sold twenty Million of his own people into slavery. But if that is the price for peacefully relations and reducing the chance of destroying the world then it is a small price to pay. I guess
 

Spengler

Banned
Yeah I still can't believe that he sold twenty Million of his own people into slavery. But if that is the price for peacefully relations and reducing the chance of destroying the world then it is a small price to pay. I guess
Well that was of course to lure them into a false sense of security. Yeah a hundred million dead in Europe alone but it helped cleanse mankind.
 
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