Beneath a Steel Sky

After successfully establishing a beachhead at nearby Bognor Regis, the German 9th Army pushed West towards their ultimate goal: the British naval base at Portsmouth. Although most of the Home Fleet had been evacuated under fire to Scapa Flow and …

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After successfully establishing a beachhead at nearby Bognor Regis, the German 9th Army pushed West towards their ultimate goal: the British naval base at Portsmouth. Although most of the Home Fleet had been evacuated under fire to Scapa Flow and Liverpool a flotilla of aging cruisers remained. As British defenses around Portsea Island collapsed and it became apparent that the home of the Royal Navy would fall into enemy hands, British commanders ordered the remnants of the RAF bomber fleet to reduce the port facilities to rubble and send any remaining British ships to the bottom of the Solent regardless of British casualties on the ground. The small garrison that remained began dumping the reserves of fuel into the sea. but not before filling up a small arsenal of Molotov cocktails with which to greet the arriving Axis troops.

Portsmouth Docks, England

Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion, was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France, Adolf Hitler, the German Führer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, hoped the British government would seek a peace agreement and he reluctantly considered invasion only as a last resort if all other options failed.

Wikipedia: Operation Sea Lion

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