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I was messing about on youtube and found this, it seemed appropriate.
https://youtu.be/OaH2-g04cIA It is only the first few minutes that are of interest as I don't believe a successful invasion was possible. |
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1: Even had the Luftwaffe defeated 11 Group they simply would have retreated to 10 and 12 group bases and carried on the fight. 2: The idea of the Kriegsmarine patrolling British waters assumes that somehow they had defeated the Royal Navy which was an impossibility in 1940. There is no way the Luftwaffe could have achieved anything more than local air superiority over the southern coast yet there scenarios around suing for peace and defeat ignore the fact that both the RAF and RN would still have been operational during these scenarios, basically the just assume they are gone from the picture. this is why I suggested that only the first 10 or so minutes were worth watching. |
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Even IF the Germans had landed in Kent there were groups and arms stashes all over the UK, in fact some arms stashes were still being discovered many years after the war ended. There were no records kept as to the locations of equipment and stores being stashed. Members of these secret groups passed away without passing on any information as to there location. There was a scenario a few years ago during a firearms amnesty where people with unlicensed and illegal firearms could be handed into the police no questions asked. To cut a long story short, a little old lady phoned the police to collect a firearm issued to her now dead husband during WW2. The police arrived and found an immaculate Vickers 303 on its tripod with a belt of 303 inserted into the gun. Panic ensued as the gun was loaded and ready to go, even the army couldnt help as no one was trained on the Vickers anymore. Fortunately a janitor at the local TA centre informed the permanent staff OC, he was indeed trained on the gun . He was taken to the home of the old lady where he unloaded the gun, then dismantled the gun for transport. When asked why her husband didnt give the gun back to the army when the war was over, she told the police that he had tried but because there was no record of the gun, the army didnt want to know. Last I heard the immaculate Vickers is an exhibit in a regimental museum |
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If there was ever a time that it might have been possible I suspect it would have had to be timed within days or a few weeks of Operation Dynamo to take advantage of the confusion and chaos at that time. |
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