if you look at my war plans,hagar,you'd see that i already had taken care of it by building more long-range bombers before the war.

hitler thought that d-day was a major bluff by the allied forces ,so he didn't want to send more ground forces to the french coast.
just imagine what would have happened,if loads of tigers and panthers had welcomed the allies at the beaches, covered by the luftwaffe...

well,this is almost a "what if..." thread, or at least a "how would you..." one.

p.s: 109s with drop tanks?

no,this was a sort of comment on your long-range fighter proposal. 109s could surely carry drop taks,but (if i'm right) just from the "friedrich" upwards...

i wouldn't say this. take many submarines plus the bismark, the scharnhorst and many airplanes as air cover and you get a nice little slaughter.

Bismark was a full fathom five by the time germany was planning to invade.

I don't know conquering the world is pretty hard. I should know I tried it myself (only got as far as the end of my street then I had to come in for tea )

I've gone back and done a bit of reading now.

Notwithstanding Hagars knowledgable comments regarding the reserve fighters and airfields in the rear, I don't think these would have saved the day in the BoB had Germany kept the pressure on the RAF.

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I have heard this. I have also read that Germany didn't have half the amount of landing craft and support shipping to support this kind of landing operation.
She also had absolutely no experience whatsoever in amphibious operations.

As for 109's and drop tanks:

The 109 was not a stable enough aircraft to mount that kind of weight on. It was also a very small plane, one of the smallest. The were dangerous enough to get off the ground and land, let alone with an extra 800 to 100 lbs on the wings (if the wings could take the weight and hardpoints!
I have seen a few pictures of 109's with drop tanks (or a drop tank under the belly), but I don't think I've ever seen one in the air.
I also read that Germany didn't have the aluminium to spare for drop tanks. In fact those that did carry them towards the end were under strict orders not to drop them unless it was a matter of life and death, because they couldn't spare the resources.

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Is that so.........................I'll have to see if I can find where I read it. It was fairly recently too. I recall it distinctly. 

Although, as we've discussed on many occasions, there is so much 'fiction' kicking about concerning this period.