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To: Serge Collins who wrote (21683)	10/15/1998 7:18:00 AM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

Serge - what a pitiful comment - sorry for you that you didn't listen to your grandfather - or watch TV or read more history. Maybe the Irish name has something to do with your perspective? The British won the Battle of Britain - which absolutely ended the threat of German invasion. The campaign in North Africa and the battle of El Alamain were hardly minor skirmishes. To speak of Britain as a defeated nation after Dunkirk is a major skirmish with the truth!!. Certainly they were demoralised at the time, and defeat seemed near to the people, but they rose above it. Frankly your comments make me puke. I returned to the UK from abroad in 1945. The damage from the Blitz was terrible. The aftermath of the was was so bleak in Britain, and this lasted for years. By way of contrast I went with my parents (I was 11 at the time) to Dublin - the shops were full of goods, good food was in abundance. E

To: Serge Collins who wrote (21683)	10/15/1998 6:32:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

They were just about defeated after Dunkirk. If Hitler had pressed the advantage and invade then and continued the hammering of the airfields they might have won. The navy prevented that to a degree. But England would have been an easier conquest than France. Once paratroops secured a beachead, the Wolfpack could have kept the British fleet at bay, albeit at a heavy price, as they had the British naval code and the German code was not yet cracked. Then a Cornish toehold would have succeeded. About ten divisions of troops could then be airdropped as the Luftwaffe kept the airstrips busy with bombings. In 8 months it would have been all over if they had attacked in 1942. But Hitler delayed, obsessed with Russia who could not invade him at he time and stewing over a large scale operation and control of the sea and air. He did not need it. Hitler screwed up the Luftwaffe by delaying the Jet program. Jet bombers would have been hard to beat. In fact the Luftwaffe had air superiority and by bombing Radar stations and airfields they could have kept the British blind and defenceless against an air invasion. EC<:-}