My uncle, Gordon Herbert Batchelor, was one of "The Few" and joined 54 Squadron in October 1940. I thought it would be interesting to research...
German Plans for the Invasion of England, 1940 Operation "SEALION"...
In Klee's three-part (but still unsatisfactorily short) history of the Luftwaffe preparations for Sealion...only the middle "volume" of which is...
Hi, I have read that in Britain in 1940 there were no armies and army groups, instead there were corps, area commands, and the GHQ (or...
Inspired by Berns thread earlier, I thought I'd type up a few points about the Atlantic wall from a book I've been reading: D-Day. Dawn of heroes...
Can anyone give me the precise location of the Germans' "Beach E"???
German WWII plan to invade Britain revealed in MI5 file BBC News - German WWII plan to invade Britain revealed in MI5 file So does anyone think...
Is is just me....or in all the furore of the anniversary of the Battle of Britain... Have the publishers forgotten it's also the anniversary of...
All, one of the things Wilhelm Canarais is reported to have helped the British with is Sealion - but I'm trying to find out how - as in to what...
All, I know more about the British plans for invasion in 1940 compared to the German plans...must eventually get round to buying a copy of Peter...
Sorry if this has been wrung out dry. People routinely say "Operation Sealion was doomed from the start." I agree that it didn't have a tinker's...
Whilst trawling the internet I stumbled on an article by my old hometown local Newspaper, The Lancashire Evening Post, which is published in...
All, it was only when discussing the general shortage o JU52s in the summer of 1940 after operations in Norway and Holland and how that and other...
What is your personal view. Did Hitler really have the intention to invade Britain or was he bluffing? Yes or No!
Has any one seen this link. Sealion project repository
i once asked a question but with no reply.... anybody know if there is a book or dvd off the re-inaction of operation sealion...when it was...
From numbers that I have read, the Army wantd to invade with 16 Divisions however the numbers below seem to be the settled number if the invasion...
What do u think the biggest mistake of WWII was? personaly i think there are 2 1.Russia Invasion-After germany lost the battle of britian they...
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