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  1. A Brighter August 1940 - BoB What ifs

    Please note before I begin, this is NOT a precursor to an unmentionable thread... This does NOT have anything to do with the unmentionable... Any mention of the unmentionable WILL be ignored by the OP. I personally find it very frustrating that there are so few if any Battle of Britain threads...

  2. The Battle of Britain: Your Thoughts

    This thread relates to the flexibility of the 'Dowding System' and what might have been had certain scenarios had occured. The System - Main Infrastructure The beating heart of the system was the Filter Room at Bentley Priory. Data came into the Filter Room, was analysed and rationalised and...

  3. Clear Skies Over Dunkirk

    I’m going to start off this particular thread with a little bit of background and analysis, starting with an extract from ‘Why Sealion is Not an Option for Hitler to Win the War, by Alison Brooks.’ “If we turn our attention to point 3 for a while, the standard response is to say that the...

  4. BoB: To Withdraw or Not Withdraw

    By the end of the first week of September 1940 RAF's Fighter Command was at it's lowest ebb. Fighter strength was typically at 550 ready aircraft for Hurricane and Spitfire squadrons with, by early September, just over 100 aircraft in reserve and 80 aircraft serving in training units. Roughly...

  5. HS 123C: Dedicated Escort Fighter

    HS 123 production ended in 1938 in its role as a Dive Bomber/Ground attack aircraft. It was cheap and rugged and easy to maintain in the field with just a pilot on-board but was intended only as a stop gap until the Ju 87 was ready to take to the skies. That being said some examples were still...

  6. Battle of Britain - Specification Swap

    What effect would there be on the Battle of Britain if instead of the Hurricane/Spitfire the Brits had the Bf109 and the Germans the Hurricane/Spitfire?

  7. PzII with a 75mm Gun

    Is it possible to mount the 75mm LG40 recoiless gun in a turret suitable for the PzII? http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.asp?smallarms_id=666

  8. WI: Battle of Britain Reversal

    Lets just suppose that AVM Leigh-Mallory comes up with a crazy idea some time near the end of August 1940. Bypassing Dowding he heads straight to the Air Ministry and lays down his proposal ... "Lets take the fight to the Luftwaffe, I've had enough of sitting around defending the skies above...

  9. Sealion Naval Forces Mk II

    In the interests of users sanity this thread has been started to get back to the original point of the discussion ...

  10. Sealion Naval Forces

    I have been working through a list of the shipping that would be available in the first few hours of an attempted German invasion of Britain assuming a date after 20th September 1940. Please note this is NOT a "the Germans had this so they could defeat the RN" discussion I'm just looking for...

  11. Ready, Steady ... GOOOOOOO!!!!!

    When discussing Operation Sealion you hear the following statements so often … If it looks like the Luftwaffe is winning the battle for air superiority Fighter Command would retreat north and rebuild their strength ready for the invasion. Once the invasion is spotted there would be an...

  12. Where do they land?

    As part of Germany's invasion of Britain they had available one airborne division and one air transportable division. If you were involved in the planning for the airborne assault where would you send your troops? Your remit is to protect both the Western an Eastern flanks of the main seaborne...

  13. WI: No "The Most Dangerous Enemy" by Stephen Bungay

    The Most Dangerous Enemy is a book in which the author sets about "Challenging virtually every time-honoured myth and assumption about Britain's victory, the book questions the traditional myth of an amateurish, honourable British "Few" up against a pitiless and regimented German war machine." -...

  14. WI: Another BoB Thread, the August Weather

    As most will know the Luftwaffe's Eagle Attack on Britain was initially scheduled for 10th August but due to German meteorology reports the start of the campaign did not happen until 13th August. In fact throughout this stage of the Battle of Britain, from 10th August through to 6th September...

  15. The Age of the Hovercraft

    Prior to WW2 the Finnish engineer DI Toivo J. Kaario, head inspector of Valtion Lentokonetehdas (VL) airplane engine workshop, began to design an air cushion craft in 1931. He constructed and tested his craft, dubbed pintaliitäjä (Surface Glider), and received its Finnish patents 18630 and...

  16. WI: The BoB with no Dowding and Park

    The Headquarters of Fighter Command was situated on the North West outskirts of London. The leader of Fighter Command, Hugh Dowding was obviously there most of the time and he was visited fairly regularly by Keith Park who was in charge of the defence of the skies above the south east of...

  17. WI: Target Rosyth

    On 15th August 1940 the Luftwaffe carried out its only major raid on northern England in which they suffered substantial losses. The losses were so high that the scale of this raid was never repeated although there were numerous smaller and single aircraft raids throughout the remainder of 1940...

  18. Where would the British have used their M6's?

    Following the Chief of Infantry recommendation from 20 May 1940, the US Army Ordnance Corps started to work on a 50-ton heavy tank. By the middle of 1942 prototypes had been developed and trials conducted and production of 6000 M6A1 tanks recommended. The tank itself carried a 76mm gun with a...

  19. Design a better wagon for British Tanks

    I haven't put much thought into this but if the British insisted in moving tanks around by rail in the 1930's is there any way of building a flatbed wagon that will give the tank designers a helping hand by reducing the restrictions placed on them by loading gauge and axle weight? For 12 years...

  20. The 7th September 1940 - an alternate

    Please help me out here ... I am currently writing a timeline for the BoB entitled Ready to be Shot Out of the Sky where the German tactics have been changed for the 7th September onwards. In reality the German attacks switched from fighter command to London's East End on this day; in my...
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