Operation Sealion was f-cked up cause of Hitler.
He may be good at speeches but with prepairing operations he should of listen to his much smarter Generals.
He did. Thatās why it never took place.
According to Colonel-General Halder, the chief German Army planner for Operation Sealion, the operation would be like āputting the troops through a sausage machineā * 
- he stated this when he found out the logistical capabilities (or lack of) of the German naval forces :lol:
ps; At the start of the planning the German army was thinking in terms of 40 divisions in the first wave, by the time of the final plan this had been reduced to 11 divisions (9 infantry, 2 Airborne and a small number of tanks) landing over a period of 10 days.
Wow, with only those forces, it would have been a sausage machine.
It gets worse. That logistical plan relied on having to use most of the barges multiple times. Given how bad the weather can get in the channel and the resistance they could expect from the RN, this is an incredibly optimistic assumption!
Those barges would have been lucky to make it across once, and they wanted to send them out some more times? They should have used their āfleetā to try and divert some attention from the barges, even then it wouldnāt have been much, because the RN would have massacred the German āfleetā.
The only time Hitler listen.
Yes hitler really wanted too do this.
I dont think he even cared about hes own troops at all:)
they wanted to invade england put they never invaded if they would have the allies would lose the war
i wouldnt want to be in england when it would happen
I bet youre one of the younger ones on here, i can tell by youre typing,
I dont think Germany had the resoucers and equitment to get too England.
It was a death sentence really.The only reason it was easy for the Germans to invade the other countries is that they were join up to them, and those countries had much weaker army than Germany.
England on the other hand, had a big army and the royal air/force and an Even bigger navy than the Germans did.
If the Germans knock out the English navey and the Royal/air force, then they could of enterd England.
Cheers
Wellā¦ You were like that tooā¦ And you should put apostrophesā¦ Just sayingā¦ :mrgreen:
Yeah thats how i knew.
he sounded the same as me.
I didt really need you telling me.just saying .Haha just playing with you
Sir Winston Churchill.
Hi aly j! Off Topic I know, but wanted to let you know that this is much easier reading than the text speak. Much improved and appreciated!
Hey,you notice.
Im doing my best with my typing, its you guys im learning from. Thanks cheers:D
i think the only way they could have conquered britain was to kill them all, i dont think any of them would surrender on their own soil. if you ever met a british soldier , you would learn that fast. God Bless the UK
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Sir Winston Churchill, 1942
ā¦and God Save the Queen!!!Long Live England!
I totally agree with you on this.
Operation Sealion never materialized due to the incorrect picture of British forces and air and sea capability passed on to the Nazi High Command. Hitler was too nervous to actually move on Britian because of this inflated summary of resistance.
Operation Sealion did not happen because of Hitlerās failure to commit. He had, been overly concerned with false intelligent reports regarding the strength of the British military.
Hello, FTG. True about Jersey. Never really attacked by the Allies, too small and flat for armed resistance to emerge, generally civil relations between German Occupation forces and locals and local government and so on. This in spite of some problems imposed on all concerned by general German policy - for example, the continental developments that resulted in the expulsion from the Channel Islands of non-CI born residents to Germany as a āreprisalā for matters having nothing to do with the Islands. Also, following D-Day, the food shortage on Jersey became particularly acute for the isolated German garrison, who did not have access (at least directly) to Red Cross food parcels when these eventually arrived. Yours with best regards, JR.