Oracle said:
Gadheras said:
Actually, if Hitler had listen to his more than competent Generals rather than do it his own way, things might have been different. Also, at the outbreak of the war Germany had no real means to do a invasion of Britain. Hence trying to break them by the air before any such could take place, but hey, there is that litle thing called "their finest hour"....
Britain was in a much worse state. They commissioned most of their naval fleet from the general populace. Thier navy was just old cargo ships equipped with guns. They had less materials than the soviet. If Hitler had attacked Britain, he would have likely won. The air strikes were also demolorizing. They would have won and the likely hood was than the USA would have stayed out of the conflict long enough for Japan to get its things together.
But instead he chose to fight two fronts investing more resources to towards the soviet invasion. These gave the USA time to counter in France, and invade the mainland.
Hitler had a plan to invade England, it had the name "operation sea lion" once the Luftwaffe had air superiority. Something they didn't manage + RAF bomber command took out barges intened for the invasion during night raids. The invasion plans got scratched. By this stage Britain had turned into a god damn fortress as well.
As for gave time for the US to counter in France and invade the mainland. Yeah sorry, England wasnt there, Canada wasnt there. Free French Forces wasnt there.... oh and in addition , Polish forces and contingents from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece and the Netherlands wasnt there.
and some more facts "The invasion fleet was drawn from eight different navies, comprising 6,939 vessels: 1,213 warships, 4,126 transport vessels (landing ships and landing craft), and 736 ancillary craft and 864 merchant vessels"
You know, the term Alies and Axies is due to a reason.... :p