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.

In World War II: The Battle of Britain …amphibious invasion, termed Operation “Sea Lion.” Victory in the air battle for the Luftwaffe would indeed have ...

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

The planned 1940 cross-channel invasion of Britain, Operation Sea Lion, remains one of the great “what-ifs” of modern military history.

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

If the Navy was not in a position to meet the demands of the Army, then “Sea Lion” was an act of desperation for which there was no justifiable reason, ...

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 ...

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Operation Sea Lion called for more than 250,000 German troops, 60,000 horses, and nearly 35,000 vehicles to embark from ports in occupied France and Belgium and ...