Dbwi: Hitler never attempts operation sealion.

I mean we all know just how bad the attempt went for the Germans. The invasion was defeated in mere days.
What if Hitler had never attempted his plan?
 
Well, the Luftwaffe doesn't get massacred nor the U boat fleet decimated so I would imagine the bombing campaign of GB would be less devastating and more merchies get sunk. US Lend Lease has a harder time getting to GB and the USSR. The war may have lasted past Feb 1944.
 
Far better Eastern Front performance, ranging from reduced Soviet gains by end of war to possible near-collapse of USSR.
 
Well, the home guard never loses its derisive moniker of “dads army”, that’s for sure. Churchill will be quite a bit less controversial for starting the use of gas, the west is quite lucky most of the Tabun was used on the eastern front. Maybe the Russians will like him more.

RAF pilot training will get a major boon without most of the basic trainers getting flakverlings to the face spraying chlorine, mustard and Paris green over the beaches.

HMS Active and her crew won’t become hero’s for their ramming.
 
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Even with the disaster of Sea Lion many in alternate history sights will still purpose and support Sea Lion as feasible and a war winning move by the Germans.
 
He probably ends up in a war of attrition in the east, crippling both his own nation and the USSR, and the US and Britain become the two heads of one single superpower. Most likely, Europe east of Germany goes to absolute shit for decades to come, and any colony that isn’t British ends up released to who-the-hell-knows-what fate. Probably some becomes sinkholes and some industrialize and turn out well.

You may not have English as an all-but-official world language. I mean, there are more English speakers in northern Korea than there are Korean speakers because of all the American companies over there. Plus, it was that or Japanese as a pan-Asian language and most Asians would rather speak English than the language of the people who raped their lands to hell and back.
 
We might not see Jack Churchill's, "Nine Days in Hell", as required reading in so many staff colleges or military academies nor see the infamous 'Moseley Massacre' occur at all. To think he nearly beat Neville Chamberlain for an election in 1922 and could have been Labor's Prime Minister candidate when the war broke out! Churchill's performance at the Battle of Ashford might not have changed the war but certainly prevented the German beachheads from consolidating and kept London proper from worrying about a German rush. I also believe as Montgomery did in that 'it kept the nine day invasion from becoming a three week one'. If nothing else it bought them time to evacuate most of the key government officials to Glascow.
 
Well, the Luftwaffe doesn't get massacred nor the U boat fleet decimated so I would imagine the bombing campaign of GB would be less devastating and more merchies get sunk. US Lend Lease has a harder time getting to GB and the USSR. The war may have lasted past Feb 1944.

Well, the home guard never loses its derisive moniker of “dads army”, that’s for sure. Churchill will be quite a bit less controversial for starting the use of gas, the west is quite lucky most of the Tabun was used on the eastern front. Maybe the Russians will like him more.

RAF pilot training will get a major boon without most of the basic trainers getting flakverlings to the face spraying chlorine, mustard and Paris green over the beaches.

HMS Active and her crew won’t become hero’s for their ramming.

A less devastating air campaign against the Continent combined with a more arrogant Germany might be a net positive for the war effort though. I mean, the absolute gutting and humiliation of Goering and his thoroughly Nazified Luftwaffe lead to the man getting forced into "early retirement" to deal with even harder opium binges he went on to handle the stress, and increased the relative influence of the Heer leadership (who bungled their part of the operation the least... mostly because of the complete lack of support from the other two branches and the sheer suicidal nature of the operation). That less...radical position in diplomacy, the lose of the aura of complete invincibility in the eyes of the other nations of the world, and outrage of the bombing of the French fleet and industrial targets (not to mention the use of gas on French soil and the horror that unleashed from the civilians), were what brought Germany to renegotiate their terms with the Marshal and brought his regime and the full might of France to the Axis side. That freed up a lot of German resources and made operations in the Med a lot bloodier than they could have been.
 
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