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Right months to get them in North Africia
and that is with England as
staging point for operations.

And that is 1942.
This is 1940 we were much less prepared
once Germany was on land in England
we would had maybe a couple weeks
to save England not several months.
This fairy tale of Hilter was just a lunatic
and it all was a just one huge false in
pan is foolishness designed to avoid
answering hard questions about
what was wrong(and is wrong) that Hilter
rose and had support to lesser or greater
degree throughout Europe and many who didn't
support still didn't want to fight him.
Why was this? The establishment does not
really want to come to grips with this.

We agree US forces were small in 1940, but as I said in post #82 the draft had resumed in September of that year; the fall of Britain would have been taken much more seriously, and while we may have not sent the calvary in immediately, they would have gotten there eventually.

The whole premise of this program is: what could have happened if Britain fell, might Hitler have won the war? In my opinion, the US would not have let him, even if we had to drop the atomic bomb on Germany which by then we were developing. I do not believe the US would have come to some kind of peace terms with him anymore than we did the communists. In order for capitalism to survive we need markets, Hitler and Japan were taking them... they had to go.

This fairy tale of Hilter was just a lunatic and it all was a just one huge false in pan is foolishness designed to avoid answering hard questions about what was wrong(and is wrong) that Hilter rose and had support to lesser or greater degree throughout Europe and many who didn't support still didn't want to fight him.

Small countries like Holland, Belgium, and Poland did not the have the military means to fight Hitler, they were forced into his rule. Some of the population in Europe were nazis or sympathizers, but it is untrue Hitler was enthusiastically supported. In each of them there were large underground resistance movements during his occupation. Even in France as I recall the films there were thousands of American flags waving as the troops and tanks poured into Paris. Or am I to believe those people were forced and dragged into the streets to show support, similar to a May Day parade in Red Square?