Please don’t ‘quote’ in its entirety the post directly above. It is not necessary – Mods

Given that a sizeable number of the ‘invasion’ barges were one shot river barges, the RN might not have even had to intervene to stop any reinforcement or resupply attempts….

I am constantly amazed by the panic the German build up caused, there doesn’t seem to have been anyone, not even amongst those who had been looking at amphibious ops and knew the problems, who said…’hang on a minute, those invasion barges…they are bog standard river barges’.