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Originally Posted by Raellus
Me too. Perhaps the Battle of the Norwegian Sea was a series of linked battles, kind of like those surrounding the campaign for Guadalcanal, albeit covering a shorter period of time. More likely, it was a multi-day battle involving multiple task forces, a-la the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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I like the way
The War That Never Was handles the fighting in the Norwegian Sea. The battle moves through high intensity and medium intensity phases without ever really pausing. I suspect that the naval battle has two distinct high intensity phases. The
first starts with the main clash in the North Atlantic between NATO and the Red Banner Northern Fleet. After NATO wins, the Allies follow the next logical step and pound the Soviet bases on the Kola Peninsula so that air power based on carriers and on land can focus on providing support for NATO forces counterattacking on the ground in Norway. The Soviets move the surviving aircraft and naval assets out while leaving a lot of wrecked hardware around to give NATO the impression that attacks on air bases are destroying a lot of combat platforms.
Once the Allies hit their stop line in Germany, they’d like to call it quits. The bulk of the surviving Atlantic Fleet assets retire for replenishment. During this period, the Soviets move back in and repair the runways and other facilities as best they can. They know NATO will be back. NATO does come back in June, and they get pasted.