re: #100 Dark_Falcon

My point was that had the war started earlier France might not have fallen in the first place.

France would have fallen, possibly even faster because there would have been less British ability to fortify their defenses and there would not have been the phony war for what training up there was. The French Air Force would not have had any of the the three fighters that actually did any damage to the Luftwaffe - the D.520, MS.406 & Curtis Hawk 75’s. They would have had the same poor tactical use of their infantry and armor and most of all they’d still have a general staff that was psychologically devastated by the trenches of 14-18.

The British would have have fewer of the foul excuses for tanks that they did have and the RAF would have been made up of Hawker Harts & Gloster Gladiators which would have fattened the Luftwaffe like the Polikarpovs of 1941 in our history. Churchill would not have been called up and Britain would have signed a peace with in 3 months of the French defeat.