Pr00ne:-
Quote:There are a fair few books and articles that claim that even if the Luftwaffe had gained air superiority over Southern England the RN would still have wiped out the invasion fleet.
FED:-
I thought the Royal Navy tried that with a couple of battleships off the Malayan coast.
The missing ingredient being their lack of Air Superiority of course. Even Fat Hermann couldn't have bungled that one. The Royal Navy would have been a sitting duck, rather than the Wehrmacht's invasion fleet. If Fighter Command had been defeated the whole outcome for Germany would have been dramatically altered. Hardly a small part of one war.
It didn't win us the war of course, but it prevented us losing it in 1940. That we survived meant that D-Day could follow, which sounded the death knell for the Third Reich (along with the Red Army's advance from the East of course). This revisionist RN nonsense is just that and says more about the RN than it does about the RAF. A pity, given that thanks to the RN's success in the Battle of the Atlantic we survived the following five years as well!