"Guy Alcala" wrote in message
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Leadfoot wrote:

How successful could the luftwaffe had been if they had simply
concentrated
on attacking ports?

Successful at what? Certainly not successful winning air superiority
prior to
an invasion, which was what they were trying to do. They did bomb ports a
lot
during the BoB (Portsmouth, Southampton, Portland, Plymouth, London,
Bristol
and Liverpool by night), but except where they were able to damage
warships
that would otherwise be available to attack the invasion convoys and/or
shoot
down a lot of fighters, it was kind of irrelevant. In any case they
didn't
want to damage the port facilities on the south coast too much, because
they
figured they'd need them eventually to supply their armies. That presumes
the
Brits wouldn't have wrecked them as badly as the Germans wrecked the
French
ports in 1944/45, and also assumes that Sealion itself had succeeded
enough so
that ports would be an issue, which is damned unlikely given the relative
naval
strengths and the ever improving condition of the British Army.


I was thinking in terms of starving the British out. Not launching an
invasion that had no chance of success even with air superiority


Guy