Dickie wrote:
The Blitz was too late. September 9th 1940, and it was too late to mount an invasion.
Ah, the liar/bullshit emoticon. No need to use that in a discussion like this one. I can be wrong and in a thread like this there`s bound to be some speculation ("what if"), but that`s something different than purposefully distorting the truth
Even though Seelöwe was in the end indeed postponed to at least 1941, this was something which happened only on 17 september 1940, so by 9 september 1940 German command still might have gone ahead if the RAF had withdrawn.
Dickie wrote:Also, the RAF were not considering a withdrawal north - citation needed....
I`ve read about this, just like you found out about your 7 points. Can`t remember exactly where, but there are multiple references to the possibility of a withdrawal with a simple google search, like here:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/ent ... _airfields
www.newworldencyclopedia.org wrote:And yet, the Luftwaffe was winning this battle of the airfields. Another fortnight of this pounding and the RAF might have been forced to withdraw their squadrons from the south of England.