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This is going to take a real leap of faith. Take a deep breath. Inhale. Focus your mind to think outside the box. It happens. [You know what I am talking about] Never mind how, perhaps Scotty beams them over. Forget about the air, and especially forget about the sea. They cometh. Think a seven day period, say, Sept 15 - 22, 1940. This is a land battle. No RAF, no Luftwaffe, RN or Kriegsmarine. Never mind about resupply. Lets say, for the sake of arguement, British forces have to take on 6 or 7 infantry divisions, without a lot of heavy weaponry coming over with them. What I am most interested in discussing, is how much can the Home Guard hurt the enemy? What the regular forces do is of secondary importance in this thread. How well can the English mentality suddenly adjust to the need for guerilla tactics? Very well, I believe. Despite their being so poorly armed, I think they would give a good accounting of themselves. Certainly they would not run away.
Please, please resist the obvous temptation. I KNOW this is ASB. Just let's have fun with it, OK.
Just for the record, my grandfather was in Dad's Army. But that isn't why I started the thread. My dad was in the regular army, in the ETO.
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