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Originally Posted by tater
No edit---again---anyway, the UK is farther to sea than Norway, so the LW would have needed not just had bombers, but escorts. Long-range escorts. They didn't have any long enough ranged for the 20 minute hop across the channel in 1940...
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I'm figuring if the Germans could have come up with something with range similar to the Japanese Betty they could have outdistanced the Spitfires and Hurricanes that made up the majority of British fighter planes. They couldn't be everywhere. If such an effort had coincided with the Battle of Britain most of those planes would have been tied up defending British cities given Britain's pilot shortage.
This all fantasy speculation anyway. Hitler's main obsession was his eventual showdown with Stalin and the drive to the east. He pretty much planned the whole war towards that goal. After the fall of France and the securing of his western flank everything else, the Kriegsmarine, the aborted Operation Sealion, the Afrika Korps, etc. all got the short end of the stick.