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DecoEchoes — Battle of Britain (Vector)
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, this was their finest hour." - Winston ChurchillDrawn in Adobe Illustrator
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This is fun.
i did one a while back as well.
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Awesome work! Hey, do you by any chance work for Squadronposters.com?
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No, I do not. I am an independent artist - and nowhere near as good as them
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Oh phooey, sure you are!!!
They are hiring, so I hear. Unfourtunately, I don't have any experience with vector arts.
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Thank you very much! Should you ever want a print, just head over to my Etsy shop (also called DecoEchoes); I can more easily guarantee the quality of the printing and shipping.
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I will most certainly head over there when I get a chance!
Once again, nice work!
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funny fact but did you know RAF was almost outta planes if hitler dint halt the luftwaffen history would be diffrent
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Hitler's mistake was diverting the Luftwaffe to bomb London and other urban centres rather than airfields and factories as they had previously been doing. This gave the RAF the chance to rebuild and strike back. Furthermore, the Luftwaffe wasn't equipped for long-range aerial warfare against a well-armed enemy; their aircraft had been designed for the infantry close-support role on the continent (against weak air forces such as Poland). Their bombers had insufficient payload and range, and their fighters had endurance only to linger over London for a few minutes, after which the bombers were left defenceless. Add in the advantage granted by the Home Chain radar, and the Luftwaffe's advantage was severely limited.
In any case, even if the Luftwaffe had succeeded in achieving air superiority, it is doubtful whether Operation SeeLowe (Sea Lion) - the invasion of Britain the bombing campaign was intended to support - would have succeeded. The Germans had no experience in amphibious assault and no specialized equipment available for the task. In fact, it was planned to use (largely unseaworthy) canal barges as landing craft. While the British coast was not as heavily fortified as the Atlantic Wall, the network of Home Guard defenses stretching inland would have made the German advance slow and costly.
At most, losing the Battle of Britain would have compounded the effect of the U-Boat campaign of cutting England off from supply lines to the United States. It might have delayed their (re-)entry into the war, but England was never really in danger of falling under German control (except for the Channel Islands).
Can you tell I'm a WWII buff?
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Well in 1940 Hitler belivedhe coulnt break thro but in real life most of britania where undefended even british soldiers said it that if the germans keeped pushing they would have TOTAL air control over britiania. and most of the coast where totaly undefended hitler had any ways to get there he could sent troops from Holland and Norway not only France even after battle of britiania and take the air fields..... Plus remumber battle of france the british had sprintfires there too that was in active service against the Luft waffen in the battle but they where mostly shoot down by experised pilots due too the planes of luft waffen was uneffective yes but as we saw with the tank battles of 1940 its not the equipment but the men useing them many luft waffen pilots had bombed and fought over Poland France Norway Belgia Danmark and yea you name it most British Pilots where just unexperiensed many even dint had passed flying school
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You make a good point about the relative experience of the pilots; indeed, many of the German pilots had not only fought during the initial European Blitzkrieg, but also during the Spanish Civil War (where the Luftwaffe's tactics were honed). Yet while Germany certainly could have succeeded in invading Britain, it would have been an enormously costly operation, as evidenced by the 1942 invasion of Crete. And due to lack of equipment and good weather over the Channel, a successful invasion could not have been mounted until later in 1941, by which time the Germans had already doomed themselves by invading Russia. In 1940 the Germans were in a precarious position: they had just pushed the British out of France and wanted to consolidate their holdings, but had not completely neutralized the British as a threat. Up until that point no amphibious assault plans had been laid, and Operation Seelowe was rather hastily thrown together with an air campaign to give it some chance of succeeding. But even by this time Hitler was diverting forces for Operation Barbarossa, so it is doubtful whether Seelowe could have been mounted within this timeframe. By the time it could have worked, Germany was already tangled up in Russia and officially at war with the United States.
Again, this is all speculation, but in many aspects the Germans were far less powerful than many people seem to think. Their equipment was advanced and their Blitzkrieg tactics worked well in the mainland European battlefields they were intended for, but neither were suited to the other combat theatres the Germans found themselves embroiled in.
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Funny but it wasnt the invasion of Soviet union that made them loose the war it was the stupid fuhrer that ordered the northem army south then coutinue to Moscow is hitler sent them to moscow the tin class plate of the soviet union would break apart and if the germans killed the Stalin Soviet union would totaly colapse under the preshure due to all the main rainways and roads was from moscow so moscow where the breaking point of the soviet union if that fell we would speak German today and i woul (Propely) sittin in a School or lab in berlin and workin (Hitler saw on Asbergers as the disigner of the future)
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While you are indeed correct that the halting of Army Group centre at Smolensk was a major blunder, Germany would likely have been unable to hold Russia indefinitely due the country's enormous size. In reality, the Soviets were able to move their industry back behind the Urals beyond the reach of the Luftwaffe - which, as I mentioned before, had no long-range heavy bombers. Had Moscow fallen the Soviets could have regrouped in the interior and mounted a counter-offensive during the winter, when they had the advantage. At the same time, Britain could have moved its factories and airfields further north - also outside the Luftwaffe's range - and likely still carried out its night bombing campaign (which severely crippled Germany's industry). This is to say nothing of the American involvement in the war. Essentially, Germany was facing determined enemies on too many fronts, and would not have been able to secure a stable hegemony over Europe. Just look at Britain's behaviour early in the war: they attacked and sank the fleet of France - ostensibly an ally - at Mers-el-Kebir just to prevent it from falling into German hands.
Returning to the topic of Unternehmen Seelowe, Germany's greatest weakness was its navy, which had been decimated during the invasion of Norway. Even if the Luftwaffe had gained air superiority, the Royal Navy would have destroyed the already inadequate German landing flotilla. Germany had had little success with attacking ships from the air - sinking only two during the Norwegian campaign - and lacked the armour-piercing bombs and aerial torpedoes necessary to wage an effective aerial naval war. In fact, the greatest opponents to Seelowe were the Kriegsmarine high command.
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Best. Comment. Ever. Cheers!
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