Message from @Ikea-Chan
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Sealion wouldn't succeed
It'd be sunk to the bottom of the English Channel.
sealion was absolutely mind blowingly stupid
There was of course the "sentiment" among some German high staff that the British would surrender
deliver more divisions to england than the allies did during the normandly landings, across a contested english channel with the RN at full strength, and only having life jackets for for the first wave.
and, using rhine barges
Rudolf Hess even went there personally, which was very idiotic
RHINE BARGES
I've seen modern rhine barges, their deck is so low to the river that a wake caused by a destroyer would have sunk the fucking t hings
rhine barges from the 40s?
Some people also say victory on the Eastern Front would've been possible.
deathtraps
What do you think about the "Victory on the Eastern front"?
9/10 sealion shortens the war for the allies and hastens the defeat of the germans
I think any scenario where the allies can aid russia ends in failure for the germans
germans penetrated to far too quickly in the initial assault, got bogged down by winter, then made an absolute monster of themselves by butchering so many that they were guarenteed their "internal lines" through occupied territories were contested
then t hey hit russian reserves backed by lease lend hitting and isolated their battle groups
lend lease even
Lend Lease or not, the Germans wouldn't have won
no lend lease the germans MIGHT have
no lend lease certainly would have prolonged the campaign by a number of years
Something that would hve helped is Germany talking murmansk
They failed to do so in 1941
that soviet blood was transported in western trucks, western trains, western jeeps, with substantial numbers of western tanks and also western planes
Western jeeps, fair.
Western tanks, few and far between
soviet production at the time was concentrated on teeth arms, US and UK supplied most of their logistics train
western tanks were quite numerous
Western planes were looked down upon since the ones they got from, f.ex the British were outdated and had already seen battle.
but the t-34 and the myth around it hides their use
russians had issues wiht the spitfire, I think largely because of maintenance and how it was used ...
but aircobra? they loved the aircobra
Hello
likely the only "allies" who did
aircobra?
P-40
Hi yathy
Do you mean, western tanks were few in Russian forces, or western tanks were few in the war in general?
They had problems with most British planes since they were either too little, too late, old or just battle-worn
Because we *coated* that land in Shermans.