[vbmoneyspender]

Equally we could not have defeated them without either Russian alliance or a far greater number of casualties.

Once we got the A-Bomb in the summer of '45, if we had been fighting Germany alone, we would have started dropping 'em all over the Fatherland and that would have ended the war with Germany as quickly as the war with Japan was ended.

[Restorer]

Agreed. But we would also have been fighting a Reich that controlled the Middle East and its oil reserves, and Russia at least to the Urals. And till the middle of 1945 nobody knew whether the darn bomb would really work or not.

There is also an excellent chance that after crushing the Russians in 43 or so, the Germans would have come pouring back across the continent and destroyed Britain, which just could not have withstood that scale of attack by itself. Then we wouldn't have had a massive base just off the European shore to launch D-Day from. Any invasion would have had to come direct from North America. The logistics would have probably been impossible.

Also remember that we only had like 4 or 5 bombs put together in 1945. Had the Reich been willing to just hunker down, it would have taken us a really long time to destroy them using the limited nukes we had available. Also, how would we have delivered them without Britain as an ally and with total German air superiority over Europe? Remember they were far ahead on jet and rocket technology. Without constant Anglo-American bombing raids, their aerospace industry would probably have forged ahead even faster.