On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:17, David P James wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > Ya know, I've always wondered why Hitler declared war on us. We never > > did anything to him. He was fighting the Godless Communists, and a > > significant minority of Americans were anti-Semitic... The usual reason > > is that we declared war on Japan. Well, heck. He ignored treaties > > before. Why not ignore the Axis Treaty? It would have kept us out of > > the war long enough to starve England. Then he could have easily > > conquored it. > > > > Easily? How? They couldn't manage to invade even when Britain was in the > weak state that it was in the fall of 1940, never mind later. The Battle
Because of lack of air superiority. My thought was "conquor via treaty with starving nation". > of the Atlantic was basically won in 1942 by the British and the > Canadians before there was any significant American contribution to the > war, and it is that battle that Germany would have had to have won to > have been able to "starve England". I dunno about that... http://www.navalmuseum.ab.ca/atlantic.html "Between August 1942 and May 1943, shipping losses and loss of life was appalling, particularly when compared to relatively small enemy U-boat losses." "In May 1943, the battle began to turn in favor of the allies. Loss of shipping declined significantly and 41 U-boats were sunk during the month of May alone." http://www.theworldatwar.com/feature.htm "Above all the use of aircraft, ... over the Atlantic Gap (now closed by very long-range B24 Liberator bombers), brought a high level of loss to the submarine arm." Hmm, who built all those B-24s, I wonder? However... http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/atlantic.html Even through mid-1942, "Brit. & Canada providing 98% of all escorts". > The Americans liberated Continental Europe. But they did not save > Britain. Arguably Canada did, but not the United States. Oh, and don't forget about Lend Lease & "ships for bases". There's no getting around it. Face it: GB would have been sunk (pun intended) without the US. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
