[southland]

RE post 28: We designed the B-36 bomber early in the war to bomb Germany in the event England fell. It would have been a ugly mess with Germany in control of England. The B-36 was BUILT after WW2 to deal with Russia.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Yeah the B-36 had its beginnings somewhere around 1941-2 to be used as an intercontinental bomber should all of Europe fall.

Re post #28, even if the US wasn't able to stop Hitler from capturing Britain, there would have been several alternative ways to get to Germany, perhaps through Italy and the South, but it would been have bloody with maximum casulaties. And we had bases in Iceland and possibly Ireland if we chose to attack Germany from the air in that direction as well. I'm not sure how useful the B-36 by itself would have been, the US still needed bases in Europe to attack Hitler directly.