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Had Hitler carried through with his invasion of England in the fall of ‘40, would it have succeeded?

What do you think?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Had Hitler carried through with his invasion of England in the fall of ‘40, would it have succeeded?

Not with the way the Battle of Britain went. The RAF would have controlled the air and the Royal Navy would have had a field day. And by then the British home army was well organized to fend off an invasion, either a large force at one point or several small simultaneous landings.

Or so says Churchill and I won't argue with his analysis.

[PzLdr]

No. Aside from being unable to establish air superiority, let alone air supremacy over the Channel, the German Navy had taken too many losses in Norway, particularly in destroyers and cruisers, to support the size of an invasion envisaged by the Army. Additionally, the Germans lacked sufficient support craft [freighters, tankers, etc] to support the ground troops, and lacked landing craft to accomplish the invasion.

Plus, like their Fuehrer, the German Army might be heroes on land, but were cowards at sea. They wanted no part of an invasion of Britain; and planned an invasion of a sufficiently large scale that they knew the Navy couldn't handle.