In 1941, during WWII the British army was forced to evacuate the island of Crete which was being overrun by the Nazis. The Luftwaffe, of course, attacked the Royal Navy warships performing the evacuation. The British ships suffered severe losses. 1/3
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This may be a touch obvious but amphibious operations are fiendishly difficult. First try efforts are almost always bloody debacles. Too many people think about Sea Lion or the IJN's plans for Midway with the well-oiled RN/USN machine of '44 and '45 in mind.
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But that machine was the product of hard lessons learned in '42 and '43.
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