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Originally Posted by DB605!!
Well, this is not the classic sealion approach for a landing on a broad front with an insufficient navy and tranport capacity.
His idea is a para landing supported by Ju 52 transported infantry on a small perimeter near Folkestone. The Luftwaffes job is to reach air superiority over this small area.
Then the RN is lured into the northsea by a fake invasion fleet and decimated like in Crete 41.
After that it becomes easier to support and enlarge the first perimeter.
The story gives a lot of insights into the thinking process of the german staff. Hope 2nd part comes soon.
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I realise that this probably falls outside the remit of an air related forum but does he state how the RN would be decimated? While the RN did indeed suffer losses off the coast of Norway and France in 1940 and off the coast of Crete in 1941 it proved that even under hostile skies it was still able to function. And considering that any invasion fleet, either in the Channel and especially in the North Sea, would have to transit during the hours of darkness it would lose a lot of protection from the Luftwaffe.
The RN already had a fleet situated at Scapa Flow in case of any attempt to cross the North Sea without stripping the south coast bases of their ships/MGB's, and not forgetting the Allied submarines in position to intercept such a force.