Just theorising:
Would the war have ended prior to 1945 if the US had sent its full military might to support the British and its Commonwealth allies against the Germans and Italians?
The Lend-Lease agreement (March 1941) was a huge help to the British (and later the Soviets) but would have been even better if significant US forces had been in the ships and aircraft etc.
Did the intervening years, prior to December 1941, give the US enough time to put its extraordinary manufacturing system into a war footing that may even have meant an early engagement would have been counterproductive? I have read that the US had less than 2,000 aircraft in 1939 but rose to around 80,000 aircraft at its peak.
Would the holocaust have been as bad, or worse, with an early engagement?
Would Britain have been one of the Superpowers if the war had ended without the same level of damage to its civillian infrastructure and manpower?
Would the war have ended prior to 1945 if the US had sent its full military might to support the British and its Commonwealth allies against the Germans and Italians?
The Lend-Lease agreement (March 1941) was a huge help to the British (and later the Soviets) but would have been even better if significant US forces had been in the ships and aircraft etc.
Did the intervening years, prior to December 1941, give the US enough time to put its extraordinary manufacturing system into a war footing that may even have meant an early engagement would have been counterproductive? I have read that the US had less than 2,000 aircraft in 1939 but rose to around 80,000 aircraft at its peak.
Would the holocaust have been as bad, or worse, with an early engagement?
Would Britain have been one of the Superpowers if the war had ended without the same level of damage to its civillian infrastructure and manpower?
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