You just beat Rommel in N. Africa - what do you do nxt?

[Gibbs505]

Concentrate on Naval power and secure the North Sea. Mass troops in Norway and push down in an early summer invasion, directly into Germany. Or wait for the bomb.

Really? Norway would be an even worse place to fight in then Italy! Churchill wanted to go back there a number of times and Alan Brooke had to fend him off!!
Then where to go? A crossing into Denmark, very narrow country, easy to seal off!!

A reason why they went were they did in France was that it was in the operational radius of the spiture, the most numerous fighter that the allies had! Denmark and northern Germany is a consideral distance further away and the seas are a lot rougher!!

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[Patrick Chadwick]

spiture

Never heard of that one: I presume you mean Spitfire. But you are touching on a relevant point. Any invasion "hop" had to be within fighter range. From Africa right across the Med to Southern France was out of the question, because effective air support would have been impossible. And any force that managed to gain a foothold in that area would have simply been pounded to bits with no air defence, no possibility of a breakout, and any seaborne supplies also being pounded by air from France and Italy. Geography beats armchair strategy.