WI Allies hold Dodecanese 1943 and harass Germans from there?

In the fall of 1943, Churchill tried to induce Turkey to participate actively as an ally against Germany. British forces landed on several of the Dodecanese Islands (Italian possessions in the Eastern Aegean), including Kos and Leros. Hitler, fearing air strikes on the Ploesti oil fields, reacted quickly and generated a disaster for the British.
WI British attacked with a little more preparation and were able to thwart the German counterattack?
Could they had used Dodecanese as an airbase against Ploesti and Greece?
 
Hmm, island-hopping in the Aegean? Could be interesting. If they managed to hold Crete at the same time, that could've also helped as well.
 
Hmm, island-hopping in the Aegean? Could be interesting. If they managed to hold Crete at the same time, that could've also helped as well.

idk... Dodecanese in 1943 was more or less a sitting duck target for the allies before Germans tke over... Italians switched sides and Germans rushed to cover the power vacuum in the islands... and so were the Brits...
But attacking "Festung Creta" needs a lot of planning and a lot more men planes ships etc.
Even if Allies managed to stabilise Dodecanese it would be too difficult to attack Crete from there... at least not without support from Turkey...
 
In France Fights On, the Allies have held on to Crete and taken Italy's Aegean possessions. Because of this, they've conducted a landing on the Peloponnese in spring 1942, taking most of the peninsula before stopped by the Germans near the Corinth canal. Although with Mussolini about to be overthrown in Nov. 42 (after the loss of Sicily), it looks like the Allies might be about to renew their advance there...
 

Hyperion

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In France Fights On, the Allies have held on to Crete and taken Italy's Aegean possessions. Because of this, they've conducted a landing on the Peloponnese in spring 1942, taking most of the peninsula before stopped by the Germans near the Corinth canal. Although with Mussolini about to be overthrown in Nov. 42 (after the loss of Sicily), it looks like the Allies might be about to renew their advance there...

Never happening. That story has been DIA for two to three years, baring some material that has been unanimously rejected.
 
Never happening. That story has been DIA for two to three years, baring some material that has been unanimously rejected.

Oh, do you mean DOA (Dead on Arrival)? Why is this? I knew from reading the forums that the project was in trouble, but I didn't think it'd be dead. It seems like the French team is still continuing. What is the material that you're referring to?

PS: Are you Hyperion51, by any chance? I'm Mikey1983.
 

Markus

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Oh, do you mean DOA (Dead on Arrival)? Why is this? I knew from reading the forums that the project was in trouble, but I didn't think it'd be dead. It seems like the French team is still continuing. What is the material that you're referring to?

Holding Crete is realistic, taking the Dedocanese might be, invading the Peloponese is not and invading Sicily is just absurd.

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@Riain: You don´t need much, a few thousand men, half a dozen LST, some CVE for fighter cover, that´s it. The now allied Italians have strong forces there, that just need to be propped up. After that Germany has one more front to cover.
 
The french site of France fights on continues well alive http://www.1940lafrancecontinue.org/

It is true that the english site has been practically abandoned but in fact I think the french site was the original and they continued to work in surely the most detailed ATL in Internet.

In any case the POD made by the team of "Fantasque Timeline- La France continue la guerre" is a lot of different from here, in La France continue la guerre the allies dispose of a lot of more men, bases and materiel (the French Naval fleet for example plus all the French colonies) and have eliminated quickly the italians from Lybia, so with this POD the allies although defeated in the Metropolitan France are in a position far more favourable than in OTL, so the possibilities of operations against Peloponesus are plaussible (in fact they use a serie of programs and simulations and studies groups to could develop this TL and see if it could be or not).

Saying this another thing is this POD, making an assault on Crete in 1943 in OTL would be too much dangerous, the same with Peloponesus.
 
Here's a POD:

In 1941 the Greek government decides not to allow the Commonwealth forces to land in Greece, hoping that this would appease the Germans, thus avoiding an invasion through Bulgaria.
With those forces available, the British then decide to invade the Dodecanese in winter 1941, attacking the Italians. With the aid of the Royal Navy the Commonwealth forces are successfull in taking Rhodes by April 1941.
In the mean time the Germans are not succesfully appeased, invade Greece and advance faster this time, since the Commonwealth forces are missing. The British land some additional forces in Crete, in order to secure the island from the Germans, since less Greek forces managed to be evacuated from mainland Greece, due to the faster Germans advance.

So it's mid April 1941:
The Germans have secured mainland Greece. The Commonwealth forces hold most of the Dodecanese islands, while the Italian garrisons in the remaining islands are being harrassed by the RN and RAF. Crete is in Allied hands, secured by a joint British+Greek garrison.

Now what?
 
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