World War 2 Talk - View Single Post - How would the Home Guard have actually fared?

phylo_roadking · 29-10-2008, 11:59 PM

Sapper, I'd guess the one thing they'd never run up against would be the FJ. The two sets of plans for the FJ involvement both gave the FJ very small - then only slightly bigger - roles in the invasion, and in both sets they were more likely to come up aginst regulars than the Home Guard.

Geoff, in the VERY few references I've seen, they're referred to as "divisions"...probaly from their full roster designation, but both of them were indeed only brigades...BUT given that the NEXT most-organised/trained unit that Churchill referred to after the Canadian !st Division was the Ulster Home Guard, I think even Australian brigades were porbably expected in Whitehall to do better that the Ulster Home Guard...

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phylo_roadking Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: feels like Brigadoon! Posts: 118	Sapper, I'd guess the one thing they'd never run up against would be the FJ. The two sets of plans for the FJ involvement both gave the FJ very small - then only slightly bigger - roles in the invasion, and in both sets they were more likely to come up aginst regulars than the Home Guard. Geoff, in the VERY few references I've seen, they're referred to as "divisions"...probaly from their full roster designation, but both of them were indeed only brigades...BUT given that the NEXT most-organised/trained unit that Churchill referred to after the Canadian !st Division was the Ulster Home Guard, I think even Australian brigades were porbably expected in Whitehall to do better that the Ulster Home Guard... Last edited by phylo_roadking; 30-10-2008 at 12:06 AM.