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Old 06-30-2010, 04:33 PM
csThor csThor is offline
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At Crete there was one Luftflotte - there were two and a lot more Stukas present in France in 1940. The outcome can't be extrapolated by picking some other battle and try to take its results and slot them in place for the battle in question.

Not to mention that at Crete the distances were somewhat longer ... and were constantly getting longer for the german AC as the RN moved to the south of Crete. In the case of a potential invasion of England the RN would have come to the germans.

But again trying to guess the exact outcome is reading the tea leaves.