—By that time the Nazi’s would have had time to take the UK. We would no longer be sending them supplies because we needed them for our own war.-—
Hanson’s book and his YouTube lectures related to it have a lot to say about that.
What’s amazing is that we were like two countries, the east and west coasts basically fighting a two-front war at the same time. Our industrial output was incredible, and once it got going there was no way we were going to lose that war to anyone. The Nazis and Japanese had no capability to hit our industrial centers in any way.
Goering even asked Hitler, “Mein Fuhrer, how will we hit Detroit?” He had no idea and no way to do it. The Germans didn’t even have the amphibious capability to successfully invade England. Their surface fleet was crap. They had no carriers and no 4-engine bombers.
Winston wasn’t letting Gerry on his island, and we never would have stopped helping the British. We were more than capable of doing multiple things at once.
Would we have? Doubtful.
The Lease-Lend program was not popular with the general public and keeping it going while we were in a major war of our own it would have been political suicide for Roosevelt. When you read the editorials of the time it becomes clear that after what happened in the Great War we really had no interest in getting involved in another European war. The USS Ruben James incident shows how determined we were not to get involved.
But once Hitler declared war on us the die was cast.
Gerry=Jerry