[WarInEur] More on France 1940

[Kent & Sue Haunschild]

Actually, German bombing did make the East Coast and Southern ports untenable. They were forced to use the West Coast ports which didn't have the unloading capacity or wharf space, nor did it have the necessary warehouse capacity to store incoming supplies.  Shipping took longer to unload which also increased the pressure on the amount available.
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  Steve,

  That is not entirely true about the BoB itself.  Had the Germans continued to bomb the ports and shipping within their air reach they would've had an impact on Britain feeding itself as dramatic as the U-boat war itself if not more so.

  Shutting down the southern ports to shipping would've overloaded the ports from the Midlands north and the rail capacity to move supplies to the more populous south.

  Walter





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