We Fought on the Beaches: A TL proposal

I think it has been established that any attempts at executing the Unmentionable Sea Mammal are doomed to failure.

However, I am sure many of us have been tempted to ask what
the consequences of that failure may have been.

I have seen one or two timelines that deal with the attempted
invasion and exactly how it failed but not dealing with the long term consequences.

I propose taking this premise and writing a TL up to the present day (which may take a while having seen other TLs of similar scale).

For the moment I will confine myself to a simple date timeline format as a rough draft, with expanded, revised timeline appearing in due course.
 
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Art

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Meaning . . .?

What? That Sea Lion succeeded, or that the Germans landed and then were turned back, or had partial success? I think Sea Lion would fail and BADLY. It is a GOLDEN opportunity to slaughter Germanies seasoned soldiers in the water and on the beaches. And smash what was left of the Kriegsmarine after the Norway campaign.
 
What? That Sea Lion succeeded, or that the Germans landed and then were turned back, or had partial success?

Sometimes reading the post you are replying to is most useful.

Ok, failure of sealion once it had actually been attempted:-

Significant destruction of the remaining Kriegsmarine surface fleet leaving it almost incapacitated with implications for both the Norwegian sea convoys and also the baltic against any possible future Soviet war.

Major destruction of the Luftwaffe - Goring prequels his disatrous Stalingrad supply attempts but with the fighting arm of the LW this time.

The elite fliegjeager (spelling) units are destroyed so cannot be used in Crete.
Whatever infantry units which are committed to the crossing and assault are lost (six+ divisions?).

Major major major loss of face/prestige for all the forces of Germany and also its Government.
Huge succcess for the Commonwealth and corresponding morale boost.

Long term - Germany doesn't try to invade Russia until 1942 by which time the Soviet army wil have mostly completed its re-equipping and Stavka (or whatever it was called at the time) will have been able to draw up a range of plans and have them learned by the field units and not just the 'attack German poland' farce that destroyed most of the peacetime Red Army.

So war ends in 1944.

:D
 
It has been established almost without a shadow of a doubt that Sealion would be a costly failure. The scenario I envisage sees the invasion attempted in late September (19-26th), with an evacuation attempted by late October. The losses to the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe will be high, and the majority of forces deployed to Britain will either be interred 6 feet under or in POW camps.

I'm not questioning whether or not Sealion would fail (I don't doubt that it would have failed), but thinking about what the consequences would be in the long term.
 
The elite fliegjeager (spelling) units are destroyed so cannot be used in Crete.

:D
The word for paratrooper is Fallschirmjäger (and if you don't have the 'a' with the two little dots on it, you can spell it Fallschirmjaeger, with the combination of an 'a' followed by an 'e' replacing the 'a' with the dots).
Fallschirm = parachute
Jäger = hunter, fighter plane, light infantry (or in the days of muskets, rifle troops, as opposed to line infantry).
 
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