The Churchill's?This is not a "teh NAZIS beat ENGLAND and kill all teh Churchilss!".
Plural?
More than one?
So there's multiple Winston Churchill's running about somewhere?
The Churchill's?This is not a "teh NAZIS beat ENGLAND and kill all teh Churchilss!".
Okay, everyone, be kind to the newb! He knoweth not what can of worms he hath opened.
Edit: OMG, did I just waste post 1000 on this? D'oh!
Well, you said itYes, I'm a new-b but I can take the criticism.![]()
Yes, I'm a new-b but I can take the criticism.
It is true that the Americans had supplied tanks to the British army by September 1940 but the quality of what the Americans were sending were very poor and if the Germans had secured air superiority over southern England they would've been able to use the Stuka dive bombers as very effective tank busters as they did in the USSR and in France. They would've also inflicted heavy losses on the Royal Navy through bombing.
Allocating 8000 airborne troops to taking a few strategic airfields and a port would have been enough to secure them long enough to enable the Germans to bring in additional soldiers and equipment - which is what the Germans did in Crete in 1941.
Forget the 1974 Sandhurst exercise: the German military had got into the habit of downplaying their own cautiousness and over-estimating their abilities when things went well but blaming Hitler every time things went down the gurgler, such as during the Battle of Britain. That exercise failed to take into account that Hitler often liked to take gambles and if the Germans had secured air superiority where he needed it he would've ordered a daring operation of some sort. An airborne operation would've been the sort of daring gamble that Hitler would've loved.
The Germans didn't need to march into London to knock the British out of the war. All they needed to do was to occupy and hold on enough territory to defeat any British counter-attacks from driving them out. That would've demoralised the British enough that they would've given Winston Churchill his marching orders and appointed a government willing to negotiate something with the Germans.
I was told "the maximum frontage for a light infantry regiment is four kilometers in defense". With that in mind I have been playing with google maps and created this "beachhead" around one RAF base.Allocating 8000 airborne troops to taking a few strategic airfields and a port would have been enough to secure them long enough to enable the Germans to bring in additional soldiers and equipment.