Re: [OT] Invading America

At 09:23 AM 5/31/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>On Fri, 31 May 2002 09:12:04 +1000, Derek Fulton
<derekfulton@bigpond.com>
>wrote:
>
> >I'm of the opinion that the German Invasion would have been a
demonstration
> >rather than a war of conquest.
>
>No one seems to have commented on my message about Puerto Rico. That
was the
>first focal point of German Naval Operation Plan III at the turn of the
>century. They even went so far as to consider towing coastal defence
hulks
>across the ocean for use in holding Puerto Rico.

When would this have been in terms of season? North Sea and North
Atlantic 
crossing would have played havoc in Winter, and the threat of hurricanes
in 
the Central Atlantic would play havoc in Summer. None of these things
are 
easy..
John S.

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