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Yes it does. Good stuff Jabberwocky!evangilder said:Great info Jabberwocky! It really does show how impossible it would have been.
Also, another factor is how tightly packed are the troop barges? If they are very close together in a dense mass, then a B-17 Flying Fortress can just fly over the top and conduct a carpet bombing exercise on all those unfortunate transports especially if a special timer or altitude thing was put on the bombs so that they burst just slightly above the transports... Also you have the good old Avro Lancaster that could be used if there was enough fighter cover proved in the situation I mention...
As a result, Folkstone was expected to handle just 150 tons per day for the first few days, building to 300 tons and then to 600 at the end of the first week. Dover was a similar story. The German Army expected to capture the port intact after 5 days, but put its maximum unloading capacity at around 800 tons per day.
I think the vast majority of us are in agreement. I think it says it most when Overlords success hung by a thread for days even when the Allied forces out-numbered the Wehrmacht, the Allied air forces had complete air superiority and the Allied navies had complete naval supremecy and we'd taken two harbours over there with us and laid an oil line across the channel!
.....check out the first date for b-17's and take the sunglasses OFF.
I think he is talking about B-17s flying mission over Germany and the USAAF certainly was not flying missions over Germany in 1940...