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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:38:34 PM EDT
[#1]
The RAF.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:38:53 PM EDT
[#2]
water infested with the Royal Navy
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:38:58 PM EDT
[#3]
Water?
Damnit 5 seconds |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:39:37 PM EDT
[#4]
That big moat they called the channel
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:39:52 PM EDT
[#5]
Royal Navy and the manpower was needed on the Eastern front.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:39:53 PM EDT
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Germany never had a navy that could compete head-on with Britain even back in 1940. Even if they tried, a zerg rush invasion of Britain would've caused untold amounts of casualties too much even for nazis to stomach.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:40:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That big moat they called the channel Quite certain that was covered in the OP. |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:41:13 PM EDT
[#8]
He didn't have Arfcom advising him.
OP - buy a membership so you can add a POLL! |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:41:34 PM EDT
[#9]
RAF and all that wet stuff.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:42:03 PM EDT
[#10]
Hitler didn’t want Britain. He wanted the Soviet Union.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:42:26 PM EDT
[#11]
The UK's armed forces.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:42:37 PM EDT
[#12]
I took a picture of the reason just on Saturday
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:43:08 PM EDT
[#13]
"We know how hard it is to cross the Channel. The last little corporal who tried it came a cropper!"
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:43:16 PM EDT
[#14]
Math
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:43:26 PM EDT
[#15]
Everyone is wrong, ultimately is was logistical in nature.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:44:17 PM EDT
[#16]
Focussing on London over airfield allowed the RAF to rebuild and prevent german air superiority. Which is needed for any success on a mass amphibious invasion.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:44:19 PM EDT
[#17]
Operation Seelowe (Seal Lion) was not launched because the Germans failed to win the Battle of Britain. Without control of the sky over the channel the invasion was doomed to fail.
Won't let me write it n German... 
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:45:00 PM EDT
[#18]
First 2 posts nail it.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:46:31 PM EDT
[#19]
Couldn't establish air superiority over the AO.
No air, your fleet (what there is of it) is a sitting duck before you ever leave port |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:46:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Germany never had a navy that could compete head-on with Britain even back in 1940. Even if they tried, a zerg rush invasion of Britain would've caused untold amounts of casualties too much even for nazis to stomach.  2nd World War |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:47:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I took a picture of the reason just on Saturday https://i.postimg.cc/c0b3hrgv/2-BD7-DB4-F-371-E-4-B38-A880-FA4429249-FC7.jpg Thank God I could make out those elliptical wings 
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:47:07 PM EDT
[#22]
Nothing there he needed. No food, no oil.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:47:41 PM EDT
[#23]
Stupidity, the Royal navy was never going into the channel, they would have gotten slaughtered by the Luftwaffe.
Hitler never had any serious intent to invade Britain. |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:47:55 PM EDT
[#24]
He wasted his resources by attacking the Soviet Union... If they would have place their efforts to controlling the air space above the channel and focused the resources to crossing the channel, there would be no UK.
EDIT: Germany and the Soviet Union had already signed a treaty. Hitler stupidly thought, that the treaty would place them in a weaker position... Hitler failed to see the ruthlessness' of the Russian political/military leaders. |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:48:36 PM EDT
[#25]
Overextended in Russia, never should have invaded Russia until after defeating England.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:48:46 PM EDT
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The 8th Air Force.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:49:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:49:03 PM EDT
[#28]
RAF+Royal Navy meant they couldn't control the channel long enough to get an invasion force across.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:49:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Germany never had a navy that could compete head-on with Britain even back in 1940. Even if they tried, a zerg rush invasion of Britain would've caused untold amounts of casualties too much even for nazis to stomach. If you count the Scharnhorst & Gneisenau as BB's and the Deustchland, Graf Spee & Scheer as heavy cruisers, Germany floated 4 BB's, 5 heavy cruisers and 6 light cruisers (and one of those heavy cruisers, the Blucher was sunk in 4/40) Add to that the Kriegsmarine command staff sucked. The Royal Navy started WW2 with 7 aircraft carriers (with 5 more under construction), 15 battleships and battlecruisers (with 5 more under construction) and 66 cruisers (with 23 more under construction) The only hope the Germans had was to completely dominate the Channel through air power and be able to hold that for a significant period of time. How close they came before Goering switched to terror bombing is debatable, but it was the only chance they had. |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:49:32 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Germany never had a navy that could compete head-on with Britain even back in 1940. Even if they tried, a zerg rush invasion of Britain would've caused untold amounts of casualties too much even for nazis to stomach. |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:50:29 PM EDT
[#31]
The Nazis were ambivalent about the Britons, and in a sense regarded them as members of the Master Race.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:50:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:50:55 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you count the Scharnhorst & Gneisenau as BB's and the Deustchland, Graf Spee & Scheer as heavy cruisers, Germany floated 4 BB's, 5 heavy cruisers and 6 light cruisers (and one of those heavy cruisers, the Blucher was sunk in 4/40) Add to that the Kriegsmarine command staff sucked. The Royal Navy started WW2 with 7 aircraft carriers (with 5 more under construction), 15 battleships and battlecruisers (with 5 more under construction) and 66 cruisers (with 23 more under construction) The only hope the Germans had was to completely dominate the Channel through air power and be able to hold that for a significant period of time. How close they came before Goering switched to terror bombing is debatable, but it was the only chance they had. Great information |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:51:11 PM EDT
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Operation Sea Lion was doomed when he left it up to that flamboyant moron, Goering, to run the Luftwaffe.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:51:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: RAF+Royal Navy meant they couldn't control the channel long enough to get an invasion force across. Disagree with that |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:52:33 PM EDT
[#36]
Failure to achieve air superiority, required due to tremendous naval disadvantages
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:52:40 PM EDT
[#37]
English nukes.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:53:28 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Operation Sea Lion was doomed when he left it up to that flamboyant moron, Goering, to run the Luftwaffe. True, the Germans should have committed everything they had in 1940 |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:54:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The 8th Air Force. You serious Clark? |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:54:15 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Nothing there he needed. No food, no oil. Au contraire, it had the one thing he desperately needed, which was the elimination of Britain as a staging area for the eventual allied invasion of Europe (and the elimination of the British Navy from Med operations). |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:54:33 PM EDT
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pretty sure thy lost nearly all of their destroyer force in Norway... they just couldn't hope to protect any invasion transport force... there's no doubt in my mind the Royal Navy would suicide if they had to to sink a German invasion force with dominant air cover..
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:54:45 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Disagree with that Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: RAF+Royal Navy meant they couldn't control the channel long enough to get an invasion force across. Disagree with that Same. The distance is pretty short, they could’ve gotten an invasion force across. They’d have been on their own after that though, as there’s no way Germany could’ve kept them supplied. |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:56:12 PM EDT
[#43]
Because the Germans sucked at logistics.
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:57:28 PM EDT
[#44]
The ocean?
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:58:26 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Stupidity, the Royal navy was never going into the channel, they would have gotten slaughtered by the Luftwaffe. Hitler never had any serious intent to invade Britain. Stupidest statement on WWII ever. |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:58:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I recommend you read up on some of the naval battles. The German Navy was quite competent and for as small as it was held their own well enough. The Kriegsmarine effectively lost almost all of their destroyers in Norway. Hitler lost confidence and pretty much threatened to scrap the capital surface ships and use the guns for shore batteries. |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 7:59:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Same. The distance is pretty short, they could’ve gotten an invasion force across. They’d have been on their own after that though, as there’s no way Germany could’ve kept them supplied. The Wermacht was so far advanced tactically in 1940 that they would have won if Germany was committed to victory. Yes, casualties would have been high |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 8:00:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Stupidest statement on WWII ever. Enlighten us |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 8:00:55 PM EDT
[#49]
Conquering the UK didn't solve any of Germany's economic issues, the focus was on exploiting France, the Low Countries, Poland and other conquests to prop up the German economy.
A lack of critical war material. A lack of Industrialization to produce needed invasion equipment A lack of manpower to fully hold the island, even if taken. Lack of Air power to fully contest the channel post Battle of Britain An inadequate Navy to hold lines of supply against UK naval raiders if conquest was successful, as the Navy was sure to be hurt after a successful invasion The UKs power was in its empire, not all in the island itself. The Germans had great difficulties in the Norway campaign, it shattered any belief that the UK was feasible. |
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Posted: 7/12/2020 8:03:05 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Thank God I could make out those elliptical wings Yeah, we’ll only had my phone on me wasn’t expecting them. It’s not something you see every day around these parts. Oh also this would have made the germans a bit toasty, don’t forget the ‘Petroleum Warfare Department ‘ and the ‘ burning seas’ plans All kinds of crazy ideas. I’m sure there was some top secret pipeline out to sea on one prime target for landing where they were going to pump fuel oil out and set fire to it. |
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