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I think the channel is a bit shallow for U boats, and sinking fast moving cruisers and destroyers is not as easy as slow merchant ships. I guess they'd have had some success, but I don't think that would be enough to protect their troops. And likewise with the Luftwaffe - while our planes...

A couple of cruisers is nothing compared to an entire invasion fleet. The Germans needed fair weather to cross, and air or sea opposition would have decimated a slow moving fleet. We'd have seen an invasion fleet being prepared, and would have had plenty of time to attack it. It's not the same...

He was joking. We're allowed to joke, right?

That certainly puts the death of millions of people into perspective :wink:

I don't know, and I can understand that if things had gone differently we would have required our Navy to devote more resources to the Atlantic, but we still could have defended against an invasion with our aircraft. True, but I don't think we were that short of pilots - we rested pilots and...

Destroying a merchant ship that's crossing the Atlantic isn't that hard, just as it's not that hard to destroy a troop barge that's crossing the channel. Our Navy could easily have destroyed an invasion fleet. Firstly, the Germans were never winning the Battle of Britain - they weren't shooting...

Exactly. Germany didn't even manage to push our fighters out of the south of England, and even if they had, we'd have been able to attack an invasion fleet from the midlands.

Germany never had the ability to invade Britain. Our navy was too strong, and they didn't have air superiority either.