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Wolfstein?

No need for any overthrowing. Churchill would had happily done a peace treaty with Germany in 1940 if given palatable terms.

Lovely example of own's Service (i.e. Luftwaffe) tunnel vision and zero understanding of logistics. Kriegsmarine involved in Norway, most of the French Army intact and thus the Heer being rather busy ... yeah, excellent moment to invade the UK ...

Yes. The "old men with broomsticks" are expecting exactly that sort of attack, unlike the Belgians, and the fit young men of the Luftwaffe are not being rescued by their buddies from the Heer. Both sides are armed with rifles, some machine guns and a few mortars. The old foggies have all the...

Both planes are not much better than napkinwaffe - neither was debugged and developed to a stage allowing for full assessment of their combat merits. More glider infantry? Better than paratroopers with those awful parachutes preventing jumping with weapons, I suppose. Even the tiny DFS230 would...

Luftwaffe winning BoB (also - define "win") and Sealion landings succeeding (and the Heer overruning the UK) are two different things.

On internal fuel the Me109's combat radius was London. I'd imagine that drop tanks (ingenius German engineers figure out some cheaper material for them) lasting more or less to the British coast would be a relatively big boost. Also - with drop tanks maybe escorted bomber missions from...

Not that it would change the outcome ... there is no need for a "Me109 for He112" swap to have Luftwaffe fighters prancing all over England. Drop tanks. Already around. Plus free sweeping Me110.

Something I learned from Sealion threads on AH-com is that the above is a myth produced by a self-serving Churchill/need for national "unbowed, unbent, unbroken" mythos. The fat drunk was just as ready as Halifax to do a negotiated peace. British propaganda always has been excellent!

Indeed, there is a gazillion of them (some quite well argued and evidenced), as every few months a new member - and not even necessarily a wehrabo - asks about Sealion. How much dead equine flogging and regurgitation of long dead matter can a board take? Another such abomination are "Japan...