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To: investigateworld

Good question, the XB-35 and B-36 were orignally designed for the mission of being able to bomb Germany from bases in the US in case Britain were lost as a base. I think it's highly likely we would have taken over Iceland and used it as a base.


28 posted on 02/11/2007 1:11:34 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative; Zuriel
I think with could have taken North African on our own with a lot more blood. Then moved towards Germany through the south of France.

Fortunately there were real men who kept Britain in the fight.

34 posted on 02/11/2007 1:30:23 PM PST by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating heart)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Actually, WE the USA were officially & militarily vested conrol & protection of Iceland during the Battle of the Atlantic.

Matter of Fact, our soldiers arrived on the island before Pearl Harbor, while our Destroyers were performing convoy duty & getting torpedoed before we officially declared war on Nazism.

38 posted on 02/11/2007 1:50:31 PM PST by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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