Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries" channel.

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  33. Crete is indeed an excellent example. The Royal Navy was ordered to prevent German and Italian reinforcements reaching Crete by sea. The axis sent two convoys. The first, heading for Maleme, was annihilated by a RN squadron. The second, heading for Heraklion, turned back to avoid a similar fate. The result? No reinforcements reached Crete by sea until Wavell had ordered an evacuation, at which point Cunningham transferred his ships to ports on the south of the island. In point of fact, no British warship heavier than a light cruiser was sunk by the Luftwaffe in the whole of WW2. Furthermore, in terms of Sealion, by September 1940, the Luftwaffe had had no training whatsoever in anti-shipping techniques. You comment that 'In my opinion the Stuka would have had a field day.' Would you care to explain , then, how it was that they didn't have such a field day during the Dunkirk evacuation? Indeed, why two of their own senior commanders, Oskar Dinort and Wolfram von Richthoven, stated, at the time, that protecting German invasion barges was beyond the capabilities of the Luftwaffe? In September, 1940, the Luftwaffe did not even have torpedo bombers and could not provide any protection for the invasion barges at night. As the Royal Navy had around 70 cruisers & destroyers within 5 hours' steaming of Dover, backed up by around 500 smaller warships, what defences against these ships was available to protect the barges during the eleven days (and nights) that the Kriegsmarine estimated was necessary to land the first wave of troops. Without, of course, most of their motorised transport & their divisional artillery? Finally, aren't you aware that the aircraft carrier never attained the importance in the war against Germany that it did in the Pacific?
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