[Homer_J_Simpson]

Bonus article at the end about a Columbian oil workers' strike.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

You will soon bow down to your German masters.

(This comment was also about 70 years too late.)

[Eurale]

Back then, the NYT was against communists - as opposed to today.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

If anyone wants on or off the Real Time + 70 Years ping list, send me a freep mail.

According to well-informed aviation experts, there is not a single bomber in the Royal Air Force today which is capable of flying to Berlin and back.

Here is a question for the military experts among us. Did any nation have heavy bombers capable of an England-Berlin round trip? In production quantities, that is.

The unions thus far have shown themselves deeply suspicious of the government’s intentions and reluctant to change their rules so as to permit the dilution of skilled by unskilled labor in armament factories.

Hitler did not have to worry about labor problems. The Party eliminated unemployment by assigning everyone a job and rendered negotiations unnecessary by setting wages and conditions.

[Last Dakotan]

Ah yes, back when American had an industrial base to offer...

[Petronski]

There is an error in your title. This story is Real Time - 70 Years.

"Real Time +70 Years" would be 2078. There is only one "real time." Now.

[mad_as_he$$]

This will bend your head. An F-15 Strike Eagle can carry more bomb load than a B-17.

[Minutemen]

I hope they get those planes in time!

[fella]

At about this same time my Dad got sent to the panhandle of Florida to build airfields to train those Brits to fly those planes.

[Vanders9]

I understand the main planes we ended up with, pre-war, were the B-24 Liberator (Good), the PBY Catalina (Very Good) and the Brewster Buffalo (Very Bad).

[doublecansiter]

I remember reading some place that this is how we got the
P-51.

As I read it; The British were here trying to purchase
fighter planes. They wanted the Curtis P-40, but Curtis
did not have the production facilities to make P-40s for
them and meet its contract obligations to the Army Air
Corps. Someone came up with the plan to get North American
to build the P-40 under license. North American told the
British that they would not do this, but they would design
and build them a fighter that would be better than the P-40
and in less time than it would take for them to tool up for
P-40 production. 90 days later the new fighter rolled out
of a Hanger at North American, the British named the new
plane, The Mustang. At least, thats the way I read it.

Mike

[CougarGA7]

Been busy lately, but here is some bonus material. The following is Roosevelt's Fireside chat from April 14th 1938.

Fireside Chat

You will notice in it that he is a true believer in government being the solution and that he does not have a grasp on what a free market is or what it can do. Many of his New Deal policies that he enacted we are still paying for today.

[indcons]

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[tubebender]

Interesting timing for this article as just yesterday I received my brother's memoirs of his draft induction, training and deployment to England. His first mission as a bombardier on a B17 was June 30 1944 in support of Normandy and he was shot down on Aug 15 1944 and spent some time in Stalag III and then a 63 mile march in 2 feet of snow and temps down to _-43 and then a few days in a rail car with 39 other POWs per car and they only stopped at night. Patton liberated this camp personally because Patton's son was there...