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Transfer most of Luftflotte 2 and Luftflotte 3 to Sicily. During summer 1940 that's enough muscle to completely eradicate British airpower and ships from the central Med.
7th Flieger Division will reinforce the Italian invasion of Malta.
The central Med should now be an Italian lake. Transfer 12 motorized / mechanized divisions to North Africa. Afrika Korps x 4.
Panzerarmee Afrika will drive east, seizing the entire Med coast all the way to the Turkish border.
Next step depends on success of German diplomacy. If Britain signs a peace treaty then Panzerarmee Afrika won't need to invade Iraq.
Panzerarmee Afrika gives Germany enough diplomatic clout in the Med that Greece and Yugoslavia can probably be neutralized by diplomacy in return for German guarantee of borders. This means Germany won't need to commit significant military forces to the Balkans.
With Britain and France no longer a threat Germany can take a tougher diplomatic stance towards Stalin's Soviet Union. Perhaps the Red Army should withdraw to July 1939 border before Germany decides to reinstate Brest-Litovsk treaty borders.
The Liverpool Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of the British city of Liverpool and its surrounding area, at the time mostly within the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire but commonly known as Merseyside, during the Second World War by the German Luftwaffe.
Liverpool, Bootle, and the Wirral were the most heavily bombed areas of the country outside of London,[1] due to their importance to the British war effort. The government was desperate to hide from the Germans just how much damage had been inflicted upon the docks, so reports on the bombing were kept low-key. Around 4,000 people were killed in the Merseyside area during the Blitz.[1] This death toll was second only to London, which suffered 30,000 deaths by the end of the war.
Liverpool, Bootle, and the Wallasey Pool were strategically very important locations during the Second World War. The large port on the River Mersey, on the North West coast of England, had for many years been the United Kingdom's main link with North America, and this would prove to be a key part in the British participation in the Battle of the Atlantic. As well as providing anchorage for naval ships from many nations, the Mersey's ports and dockers would handle over 90 per cent of all the war material brought into Britain from abroad with some 75 million tons passing through its 11 miles (18 km) of quays. Liverpool was the eastern end of a Transatlantic chain of supplies from North America, without which Britain could not have pursued the war.
Why?
1940 RAF was armed to the teeth in the British Isles. Bombing British Isles will just hand Britain an easy victory and cost the Luftwaffe a couple thousand aircraft.
Why?
1940 RAF was armed to the teeth in the British Isles. Bombing British Isles will just hand Britain an easy victory and cost the Luftwaffe a couple thousand aircraft.
By August 1940 the LW had over 1500 mines and by 1941 there were some 5000 on hand. The big problem was the Germans using them too early and the resulting capture of a magnetic mine in November 1939. If they had waited until May 1940 it would have been devastating.That would work only if the German Navy had procured an adequate stockpile of aerial mines and a modern aerial torpedo. Won't work with historical German Navy ammunition stockpile of 1940.
The Luftwaffe came close in late August 1940 to defeating the RAF.
The original question was what would you do as commander of the Luftwaffe with a free hand to conduct the air war against Britain?
As my old teachers used to say before examination days, "always read the question"
Cheers
Steve
Alright, I changed the POD to reflect that the campaign is only directed against the British Isles until June 1st 1941.Yeah but you can conduct the air war against Britain where the British are. They were in North Africa were they not. It even said, you don't have to conduct the BoB.
Maybe the question should have been more specific...
Unilateral truce? What then?Do nothing.
It would come at a serious cost to keep those stations down, because they could only be knocked out with a direct hit. Also the Germans, after they knocked them down, were fooled by the continued broadcasting by the British to mimic the station being active, so they felt they couldn't knock them out for long. What is to prevent the LW from falling for that again?The LW had tried to draw the RAF into an unequal battle over ther Channel by attacking shipping with bombers that had heavy fighter cover. I believe that the RAF were informed about the concentration of fighters and ordered not to engage - I may be wrong here and am open to correction.
This lead to the LW having to change its emphasis and try to destroy the radar stations and then the airfields - which came close to succeeding!
You have to fight the war, because the British are going to attack you if you do nothing and are going to draw in the US. They refuse to negotiate and are blockading you, so time is not on your side.Why not? Better than risking your air force on a folly.