Originally Posted by
Chugalug2
Pr00ne:-
FED:-
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!
I agree the RN deserves huge credit for the Battle of the Atlantic, but, once again, air power was decisive. The employment of very long range aircraft with radar was pivotal to the suppression, then the neutralisation and then the defeat of the U-Boat threat.