"Grantland" wrote in message
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Alan Minyard wrote:

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 14:00:35 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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However the RAF could still have sallied forth to defend
against an invasion and the Germans simply had neither the
resources to get the invasion force across the channel or
any way of stopping the RN from chopping their force to bits.


Wouldn't the Luftwaffe be a way of stopping the RN from chopping their
force
to bits?

No, not at the time. the Luftwaffe did not have "air superiority" over
the Channel, or over Britain. Would the RN have lost ships? Probably,
but not enough to deter or defeat them.

The Germans had no effective landing craft or amphibious warfare
ships, and would have been annihilated in trying to cross.

Not if the BoB had been lost.

Are you remembering that Churchill had stockpiled and was highly prepared to
use massive amounts of mustard and other CW on them? That would have held
them up somewhat...

John