On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:25:43 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

On Mar 16, 5:05*pm, Jack Linthicum
wrote:
...
Getting the stuff off on a beach just might be the hardest part of the
trip.

If the U-boats were even twice as effective as on D-Day the RN would
have made glorious, bloody history.

jsw

People forget that the RN had subs in 1940, too. If the Kriegsmarine
had tried an invasion they would have been as subject to attack as the
Allies were in '44 and without any significant anti-submarine
capability.

Any German sea borne operation was at best a chimera. Or more likely
a way to fox Statlin into thinking, "all is well."