In lost I the movement of the British Fighter Squadrons further North to protect them from the luftwaffter. Would the German been able to carry out Operation Sea Lion (Projected German Invasion of Great Britain).
DDay was carried out in June, and was postponed a number of times and almost postponed again because of the North Sea.
If we had been forced to evacuate the fighter squadrons from the South to protect them. What then for the Germans. We were by then moving into late Autumn. The North Sea wou;ld of been extremely rough and most of the ships that were to be used to were flat bottom Rhine craft, suited for the River Rhine, not for the North Sea not even in the more mild days of June.
Any Invasion with any chance of success would have needed to be carried out when the Weather was better and seas more calmer the following spring in 1941. We would of rebuilt are fighter squadrons and Army by then.
The Battle of Britain was important in that it raised moral and was the first defeat of German Arms. But the projected Invasion itself I feel was one big gigantic bluff on behalf of the Germans.
Tony
I don't think an invasion would have been possible in the fall of 1940 even if the Luftwaffe had achieved air superiority over southern England. Even with that air cover the Kriegsmarine wouldn't have been able to protect the troop ships from the Royal Navy. Let alone protect their supply lines back to France.