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Originally Posted by swiss
That was the original plan - what the f*** you want with that island anyway if the tadeoff grants you access to the resources of North Afrika without messing with the Tommies.
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An Island is an aircraft carrier that cannot be sunk.
By having the British Islands the Alies could continue an air offensive in the west and tie up valuable German resources that would otherwise have been used by the Germans in the invasion of Russia.
There is no way that the alies could have begun the Stategic bombing campaign that brought Germanys Industrial might to it's knees without the British Islands