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Old 7th Oct 2021, 07:50
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Asturias56
 
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" the planning, equipment and resources that went into D-Day just for the Neptune component."

but that was an attack on a fully equipped enemy which had had 4 years to prepare against invasion

In 1940 the British Army had lost almost all its heavy equipment in France and was totally disorganised - and the fixed defences were
amateur. The RAF had fighters, which hadn't been adapted to carry bombs, but very little in the way of battlefield support. The Germans had a lot of kit and an airforce designed around battlefield support.
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