It was the English channel that saved Britain, the British army had been defeated on mainland europe, but for he channel theGermans would have swept into Englnd, their paras would have seízed the airfields and that would have bee that,
My grandfather was at gallipoli with the royal navy, he was shot through he lung while lnding troops in open boats, he called the cmpaign "churchills blunder"
This is hypothetical ****** about a situation that never occurred. Had there been no English channel, England would have been part of Europe and the history of the world would have been radically different from about 2000 BC onwards. So the argument about the Channel stopping Hitler is irrelevant, they may never have been a Hitler or WW2 had there been no Channel. The channel wouldnt have stopped him had he had air superiority, plus the other prerequisites i listed above.
The fact is, and this is accepted wisdom in wargames, without air superiority any sea invasion is doomed. Thats why we, who recognised this need, obtained air superiority before D-Day - we crippled the airfields, aircraft production, oil production, and fuel production, to cripple the luftwaffe, then we crippled the docks and french rail system and bridges, to cripple the movement of troops. I repeat, and you can go and read a few history books to get the same view, that Hitler abandoned Operation Sealion because of the failure of Goering to cripple the RAF and obtain air superiority.
Furthermore Gallipoli was World War 1, and nothing to do with WW2, apart from the lessons learned, and indeed it was Churchill mistake, although The incompetence of the Generals didnt help. They had the transports loaded back to front, so the Navy sailed up the Straits and there wasnt a Turk in sight, they could have landed unopposed, but then they discovered the problem with the supply transports, turned round and went home to repack them, and when they returned a month later there was 100,000 Turks waiting for them on the mountain ridges.
And if you want a big willy contest about who did what.........
-My father was a WO navigator , and did two tours, one over France and one over India. he was shot down in the Bay of Bengal and spent a week ina dingy avoiding Japanese until picked up by a Catalina Flying Boat.
-My Uncle was a heavy bomber pilot 1944 and was at the firestorming of both Hamburg and Darmstadt
-My Aunts were WRAAFs. WRENS, and Land Army
-My Grandmother was a QAIMNS sister on a Hospital Ship Brittanica
-My Grandfather was CPO on the HMS Pegasus and mentioned in Dispatches at the Battle of Jutland 1916 and was recalled as Reserve in WW2 and at the Battle of Denmark Strait when the Hood was sunk by the Bismarck
-Another Uncle was Intelligence Attache to the US Army and British Army liason at the Salerno Landings in Italy.
So ive been steeped in the history of the world wars since i was able to listen to the stories. I consider your view to be defective in this subject, based on your lack of proximity to the events............
