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Originally Posted by Kapitain
So what chance has a few battle ships a tinpot carrier a hand ful of planes and marines going to do ?
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A couple of Tinpot Carriers and a hand full Marines held midway! I bet the German Marines (did they even have them) or more likely the German Army never experienced a pounding like the Japanese experienced on some of their island fortresses. The Caribbean is in such a range that US land based bombers could come off the factory lines, get fueled up and bomb them, the Germans have basically nothing to counter them no Fighters with adequate ferry range, no carriers to deliver them, any freighter delivering them would be subject to US submarine and air attack, so no air cover of the island. In other words any Fw-200 bombers would be there undefended.
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by the time they re group germany could re fortify that island sending uboat convoys to defend it and supply it.
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Then less U-Boats to attack North Atlantic Convoys, also the USN has its own submarines from the East Coast and from the Panama Canal to conduct ASW (yes US Subs did ASW patrols in the Atlantic) around any German island base to cut off supplies.