I have a few ideas...
If the BEF gets back to england with almost 34 divisions [338,000 troops], I can see why the Germans have too win quickly if at all. Assume that it takes england the rest of June thru July and august to begin reorganizing and re-equipping and redeploying these divisions. I am assuming that these divisions had lost all transport, supplies, equipment etc and had retained [at most] the soldiers personnel weapons only. Given that these troop would be largely scattered along the channel cost, with no effective communications, I would go with T.A.Gardner's plan with these changes.
If you have a window of just 2 3/4 months before the Brits will start getting the Dunkirk troops operational in sufficient numbers to make an invasion impractical, then you must act as quickly as possible. The French campaign would get the undivided attention of the German armored divisions, and all but a few of the Infantry divisions.
I would turn virtually the entire Luftwaffe loose on england immediately [June 5th]. Britain would get hit with the airborne troops as soon as possible. The airborne troops would not attempt to take and hold a port [which you would not be ready to use for a month or so, but would instead assault and capture as many of the lower England airfields as possible, and immediately begin airlifting troops and supplies following their capture.
By not just attacking all the lower england airbases but capturing as many as you can asap, you will force the withdrawal of the RAF into middle and upper england and will hopefully have accounted for a sizable portion. You thus negate their radar warning, prevent spoiling attack upon your harbors and invasion shipping, and gain the ability to base as many aircraft from these southern england airbases as you can.
If an airborne division contains say 10,000 troops, then drop a company sized element at each of 100 airbases. Send in several successive waves of fighters too draw the Brit fighters into the air and lead them as far from their airbases as you can. Brief your first too waves pilot's that their goal is to make the defending fighters use up as much fuel as possible. If the waves come in 15-20 minutes apart [with the first wave breaking contact once the second wave arrived}, then the Brit fights will have been aloft for an hour or so by the time the airborne troops transports are arriving over their airbases. By the time the defending fighters break off and return [hopefully to low on fuel to make it to another airfield that isn't already in German hands], all the aircraft on the ground will have been captured/destroyed.
Once you have built up enough troops by airlift, then expand your perimeters and take the ports from behind. The Dunkirk troops, trapped south of your forces, would never be able to be resupplied and thus would have escaped only to be captured in southern england.
[ 04. January 2007, 12:57 PM: Message edited by: Shadow Master ]
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