NEW FOR APRIL 2011 - Operation Sealion is a fascinating insight into the German intelligence gathering in preparation for the invasion, in England. The name 'sealion' was the code name chosen by Hitler for his long-standing plans for Nazi invasion of England in World War 2.

This rare dossier which emerged in 2010 after 70 years of obscurity reveals Hitler's plans to invade with 6 divisions moving through Kent via Folkestone and Ramsgate.  Other units would invade Sussex and then push through Brighton and the Isle of Wight, and Dorset via Lynne Bay.  It was undoubtedly to be the first phase of the total occupation and domination of the British Isles.

Had Hitler launched Operation Sealion immediately after the war was declared, his formidable invasion force would have found England virtually defenseless and ill-equipped to repel their onslaught.  But Hitler made no move.  An eerie lull settled over the land.  It was referred to as the 'Phoney War.'  It continued for several months and allowed an uninterrupted boost to the round-the-clock manufacture of war weapons ranging from nuts and bolts to heavy armoury. Most significantly to the fighter aircraft so urgently needed for the R.A.F to guard the skies against the German Luftwaffe's heavy bomber formations whose invasion orders would be to bomb England's civilian population into submission.

The process of softening up England's resistance began in the late summer of 1940.  The anticipated formations of bombers came in relentless waves, day after day.  The R.A.F Spitfire and Hurricane pilots- forever to be known as THE FEW - were even more relentless.  They defeated the Lufftwafe and won the BATTLE OF BRITAIN in September 1940.  Without air supremacy, the Nazi invasion could not succeed and was never attempted.