Hitler missed the boat!?! He didn't have any aircraft carriers !? ?

On Jul 22, 11:51Â*pm, Tiger wrote:
Rob Arndt wrote:
On Jul 22, 1:11�am, Joe Bruno wrote:

On Jul 22, 1:03�am, LIBERATOR wrote:

I think had he had one aircraft carrier, he could have won the war.
Now just imagine 2 or 3, why the heck didn't he produce these?

Why why why didn't this big beaked bohemian corporal have his navy
create an aircraft carrier? I'm wondering if anyone knows an
explanation for this...

How could he not figure out that mobilizing a small air force is going
to give him odds on his foes that they are going to have to devote
resources to mitigate the threat of this mobile air detach?

I say Hitler missed the boat! ...oh well, he's only human I guess...

One aircraft carrier wouldn't have done much good.
He only wanted to occupy mainland Europe, so he didn't need carriers.
The German Navy under Hitler didn't get much funds or attention,
except for the Uboats and they
got massacred in the last stages of the war.

No Joe, the U-boats wrecked havoc on Britain and had Doenitz 300 of
them at any time in the N Atlantic would have won the war by 1940 by
starving Britain and preventing a pre-D-Day invasion build-up. At any
given time there were only around 100 boats in the water with the
Fw-200 and the pirate raiders racking up huge tonnage of sunken
ships.

However, Britain cracked enigma and then the war turned over to the
Allies with the destroyer escorts, better a/c with radar, defeat of
the Condor, and even Doenitz's decision to divert around 50 boats at
any given time to the S Atlantic.

The KMS Graf Zeppelin was not finished (up to 80%) and so was used as
a floating naval warehouse while the KMS Peter Strausser was scrapped.
Goering also forbid a rival Kreigsmarine air arm, so that was that.

The U-boat arm took tremendous losses in the last year of the war but
new developments like the U-boat Types XXI, XXIII, and XXVI would have
have turned the tide along with technologies like silent drive,
stealth coatings, wire-guided torpedos, and the ability to stay
submerged as opposed to running on the surface most of the time. But
time simply ran out and very few of these boats got to trials while
only 4 Type XXVIs were laid down.

The Prufstand XII V-2 towed missile launchers were also delayed with
only one launcher finished at Stettin with the other two only 65%
completed. The Kriegsmarine hydrofoils were failures as well as the
midget subs and explosive torpedo boats. The German S-boots instead
racked up some good kills before the Kriegsmarine resorted to the
eastern evacuations with over 2.2 million people moved in 1945 before
capitulation.

Rob

Nice topic but better placed at sci.military.naval &
rec.aviation.military.naval if you want imput...- Hide quoted text -


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