Hitler wanted an immediate invasion to prevent the British army recovering from its defeat in France. All this was to be completed by 10 August 1940.

Much history and more fiction has been written about Operation Sealion - the proposed Nazi landings on the South Coast with Bexhill as its nexus.

7 июл. 2020 г. · Operation Sealion was the code name for Nazi Germany's planned invasion of Britain. It was supposed to take place in September 1940 and, had it ...

Such an operation required complete air superiority, and Göring promised that the Luftwaffe could smash British air defenses in four days. The Battle of Britain ...

Operation Sea Lion (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe) was the plan to invade the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during World War II.

The plan was to land a large number of German troops on the southern coast of England, specifically the beaches of Sussex, Kent, and Hampshire. Once ashore, the ...

It was premised on the assumption that a successful offensive would result in the capture of the Belgian- French Channel coast and that the German Navy then ...

The planned 1940 cross-channel invasion of Britain, Operation Sea Lion, remains one of the great “what-ifs” of modern military history. Не найдено: summary | Нужно включить: summary

3 авг. 2018 г. · Operation Sea Lion was the German plan for the invasion of Britain in World War II (1939-1945) and was planned for sometime in late 1940, after the Fall of ...