[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
German Fighter Range and British Radar Deployment
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

Plus a special guest map from Michael Korda’s, “With Wings Like Eagles,” showing the air defenses of England and Wales, August 1940.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

[henkster]

Just looking at General Marcks’ plan for what will become Operation Barbarossa. Marcks was supposedly a brilliant planner, but there is a glaring deficiency in his plan. The final stopping point of the operation along the central axis is around Gorki. In one warm-weather campaign season, you can’t get there in the time allotted. Applying basic math to laws of logistics, it’s impossible.

Even the junior officers on his staff had to realize this.