What if Hitler never started the Eastern front or North Africa?

Well, believe it or not, some aircraft which fell in the BofB were not found for weeks afterwards.....hidden by those non-existent woods. Fact is, many of the fields were, and still are, bordered by small coppice-type woods. Try to land in a field, your fragile aircraft invariably hits trees or a thick hedge.

( We are talking about SE England - not Nebraska ! )

Oh - and there was a Ju52 at the Duxford airshow last weekend. Impressive - but very slow ! I can see how vulnerable they were to even small-arms fire over Crete.....

 

I never said all the woods were non-existant… but certainly many are, most of them ended in the bottom of the sea —once scrapped, of course. Not too many defeats too tell by the RN…