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To: Bilow who wrote (36146)	8/7/2002 3:16:41 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Carl re: Invading islands is impractical without control of the sea. well move heavy artillery to the waterfront in France and you have complete control re: War is mostly about logistics. that is a relief otherwise Germany would occupy England and without England drawing German resources Stalin would give Germany byelorussia, ukrain, and half of the European part of Russia...... -Albert

To: Bilow who wrote (36146)	8/9/2002 12:01:56 AM
From: james-rockford	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

<<10 million German bodies floating in the North Sea.<< Have to disagree on the Nazi invasion of England. Their greatest problem was securing landing craft for the invasion (the allies had the same problem in the build up for D-Day in '44), the Germans scoured Western Europe for any thing that could be converted into a landing craft, barges, etc. They eventually found more than enough landing craft. Planning soon began on Operation Sea Lion, with the great General, Erich Von Manstein in charge, but Hitler's heart was never really in it. In Berlin, on July 16th, 1940, in a secret speech to the military, Hitler laid out his plans for attacking the Soviet Union. The assembled Generals were shocked! The final date for the invasion of Britain was set for September 15th, 1940. In their final pre-invasion report the Wehrmacht said they were satisfied that the Luftwaffe had control of the skies over the invasion Beaches in southern England. The German Navy was confident of its ability to control the Invasion Lanes, with the Submarine force set to play a major role when the Royal Navy attacked. The German Navy also thought the Luftwaffe had done an adequate job and they too signed off on the Invasion. So, with the German Army ready to go, the Navy ready to go, why then didn't they invade and conquer Great Britain? Simple, it was Hitler. It was one of his many bizarre military decisions. Such as: not taking Moscow in the summer of 1941, declining the prize of the oil rich Middle East in 1941, not invading Gibraltar, and declaring War on the United States. One British Historian later said, "had they invaded they would have wiped the floor with us." The British Army had left almost all their heavy artillery back on the beaches of Dunkirk. There was hardly a good anti-tank gun in the whole Country. It was incredible, the Empire that was so great in 1900, was now in 1940 at the mercy of a homicidal lunatic in Berlin.