Had Hitler not held up the drive and trapped and captured the BEF, would an invasion of England succeeded?
Once again, reference made to the concentration of ships at Pearl.
I never had any clue as to how long we dangled that piece of fruit before the Japs.
Dyle Line, we hardly knew you.
The average American reading these articles probably realizes France just went down for the count, just like Poland. And notice how the French have thrown the Dutch and Belgians under the bus, claiming their lines in the Sedan sector were “weak” because they sent troops to help the Dutch and Belgians.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/may40/f18may40.htm
Germans advancing west
Saturday, May 18, 1940 www.onwar.com
On the Western Front... St. Quentin and Cambrai are taken by German panzer units. Farther north German 6th Army (Reichenau) takes Antwerp.
In Holland... Artur Seyss-Inquart is appointed Reich Commissioner for Holland.
In Paris... Reynaud appoints a new Cabinet in an attempt to strengthen the French conduct of the war. He himself takes the Ministry of Defense, Marshal Petain is deputy prime minister and Mandel is Minister of the Interior. General Weygand, even older than Gamelin but far more vigorous, has been recalled from the Middle East to take over Supreme Command. Although these changes probably do strengthen Reynaud’s team, especially his own new office, they will turn out to have been ill-advised. Some of the new men, Petain in particular, will become deeply pessimistic about the outcome of the war and will in time bring Reynaud down when he himself would have preferred to fight on.
In Britain... Tyler Kent, a clerk at the US Embassy in London, and Anna Wolkoff, a Russian emigree, are arrested on spying charges. Kent has had access to the correspondence between Churchill and Roosevelt, and Wolkoff has helped pass it to Germany via Italian diplomats. Kent’s diplomatic immunity is waived by the United States ambassador. Wolkoff has had connections with a pro-Fascist organization, the Right Club.