| It's just my humble opinion, and I'm probably wrong, but I believe that in any campaign many factors are involved. It's like Chaos Theory (a butterfly flaps its wings over Tokyo and six months later you get rain in New York City instead of sunshine). The RN smashes-up the German Navy in Norway. The Germans plan to use river barges instead of true landing craft. The Germans show initial success in attacking Britain from the air (attacking airfields and other infrastructure). A German bomber group inadvertantly "ditches" its bombs over a blacked-out London. The RAF retaliates with a raid on Berlin. Hitler loses his marbles and switches to attacking cities. The RAF shoots down a bucket-load of bombers. The US starts sending lend-lease four-stacker destroyers to Britain, severely turning the tide in light ships against Hitler. The "Leopards", as Churchill wanted to call The Commandoes, begin messing things up wherever they go.
I guess that what I am trying to say is that all the Brits were heroes, most of the Germans were heroes, and, Hitler had simply run out of marbles to lose. But, I guess that's what you get when you have a paranoid, tantrum-throwing corporal running the show.
That's just my opinion, so I'm probably wrong. |