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From: hhm@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (herschel.h.mayo)
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Subject: Re: Luftwaffe kill ratios and the BB
Summary: could have worked
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Date: 1 Nov 89 04:50:41 GMT
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From: hhm@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (herschel.h.mayo)
>  Remember that
> the German goal here is neutralization of Britain.  This is achievable only
>through amphibious invasion and victory using panzer and infantry forces.  Even
> though British ground forces were badly shattered after Dunkerque, there was
> certainly enough left--not to mention badly-equipped but extremely hostile
>militia--to require a major German ground effort.  As Overlord showed, you need
> an awful lot of ampib transport just to get a modest force across the Channel.
>That's the vulnerable point.  It wouldn't take many British destroyers to raise
> holy hell with all those landing craft.  Sure, the Luftwaffe would send most

    The Invasion of Britain  by Macksay  is a theoretical scenario of
an invasion of Britain which changes only the time of the invasion, 
moving it up to May of 1940. He uses statistical analysis accounting
for virtually all weapons, land sea, and air available to both sides
to make a convincing argument that an invasion of Britain in that time
frame would have been inevitably successful. He deals with a number of
myths about German inability to launch an amphibious invasion, as well as
how German navel power would have been sufficient to protect the invasion
force against the Royal Navy. It makes for good reading.


                                                      Larry Mayo

[mod.note:  The book is _Invasion: The German Invasion of England, July
1940_ by Kenneth Macksey (1980, Book Club Associates, London). - Bill ]