Lets divide this in two : 1) Attacks by artillery. Following Dunkirk evacuation the British were quite short on army equipment and that included...
Is it possible that you are reffering to some other battleship, since there doesn't seem to be reference to any such action in the HMS Revenge's...
The pictures of barges on the river usually shown here are somewhat misleading , since the barges shown are fully loaded (for obvious economical...
My take on this is : a) Switch the economy to full wartime footing. b) Make a serious plan to invade Britain (not the bluf of the historical...
According to Manstein's "lost victories" the channel was 'smooth like a pond' for most of the august and the beginning of September 1940....
There is an additional possible strategy for Sealion - instead of trying immediately to conquer the whole island, the invasion troops could occupy...
One more sideline idea I wandered about for a while. What if the Germans filled a big merchant(or several) with 10000 ton of TNT and sunk it in...
Thanx! Yep, that's me. The thread rised fair amount of attention and the discussion became quite interesting (at least to me). However the...
The KM had a problem with finding personal for the 1900 barges. However eventually they did find crews (if undermanned). In my proposition there...
My understanding of the historical plan of Sealion is that it was flawed in every possible way, and these flaws came from 3 basic problems : 1)...
The variant with attacking even before France fell seems to me problematic, considering that Germans didn't want to jeopardise their conquest in...
Would beaching ships help? Germans had some 168 merchant freighters designated for the invasion with 700 000 tons of capacity. What if they...
Regarding the supply system I though- what if the Germans used all their bombers and transports only for supplying the troops and the fighters to...
I would like to discuss any ideas as to how Sealion could have been made workable, assuming that preparations start in the beginning of July 1940...
