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View Poll Results :Could Germany defeat the US? | |||
No, the US Navy would stop any invasion fleet before they arrived. |
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20 | 34.48% |
Yes, long drawn out battle. |
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12 | 20.69% |
Yes, short, quick knock out victory. |
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6 | 10.34% |
No, the US Army would throw any invasion back into the sea. |
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6 | 10.34% |
No, the US would eventually win a long drawn out victory. |
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14 | 24.14% |
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what most people are forggetting about the american people and WWII
1. Most people supported a non-involvment with the war in europe: it was the europeans problem, let them solve it was the general concensus. It wasnt until after pearl harbor, and the axis tripact finally declared war on the US, that the nations people were finally galvanised enough to get up, get a gun, and prepare to cross the oceans to fight the japanese and the germans. 2, although we became the arsenal of democracy for just about everything, at first we didnt have anything. Heavy tanks were almost unknown in the US: most went to the british through canada. Bombers, fighter, and transports didnt exist in a large quantity. we simply hadnt built them yet, because the catalyst of pearl harbor hadnt occoured. 3. The main defensive drive in the US was defence through coastal forts along the seacoasts. they essentially did away with the net work after wwii, but a lot of the older forts had up to 14 inch disapearing rifles and 10 inch mortars guarding the harbors and such. 4. the population of the midwestern states was mostly farmers, and they were just recovering from one of the worst droughts in the nations history. The midwest was almost barren in some places. the population was in the areas conducive to life as they knew it, which was on the east and west coasts. and the least defended coast was the west coast. 5. Relations with mexico were extremely poor: and yes, arrasngement for any amount of money could have insured the sucess of a german landing group. 6. What most people cant believe was just how many liners and cruise ships the germans had for troop transport. the germans were big on their entertainment: i know that one of the british's primary targets was to sink and bottleneck in bremmerhaven as much of the german sea assets as possible, to keep it from being used in WWII. 7. The germans had very good surface raiders that pounced on merchant ships. If the british hadnt sent their assets after them early in the war, theres no telling what the outcome would have been on american shipping, before we ramped up to replace the losses in the battle of the atlantic with the submarines. 8. Theres one historical item being left out that was the most cruical factor in the war: radar. The british developed radar during the early days of WWII: it was the americans that mass produced it, and installed iit in everything from ships to planes. But without the brits, you simply didnt have someone to develope, test, and prove its effectivness. Britain was the key pin that kept the germans from taking advantage of the US weaknesses, until we were properly motivated to come out swinging. without britain, im sure it would have been a long, bloody road for the US. and if the USSR and japan were feeling froggy, im sure they could have jumped our tailends with them. I am immently grateful that Britain gave us a chance to get our head out of the sand, and into the conflict to win. |
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My 50 cents:
America had the biggest Navy, so it would be tough one for Germans. Guy 100 said that if Germany landed on USA's soil we would loose, hard one without air support ![]() So USAAF would anihilate Nazis before reaching the shore(without airsupport you are no one) Maby only Japs could give some assistance in the air, though their planes were just too slow, and I'm pretty sure that USN would have everything under control. Now if England was lost before we could interfere... Probably whole mighty British Navy, would come to our side not surrendering to the Gerries, we would be really mighty on the sea! Probably Germans would bomb London with an A-bomb, Britain would capitulate, and Soviets would crap in their pants and surrender, beeing Germany's favourite client nation. We would sink Japan with Nukes, so they can't count on Japan any more. Germans would rally in the Europe like an angry bull in a Texas Rodeo. Bloody battles would be faught first in Africa, 'cause it would be the easiest way for us to bomb Germany(Britain is gone). We would probably ask for help from other American nations, at least in men. Unrivaled at sea and air, mabe we would force Germany to some sort of surrender. We were ahead with jet weapons, Yes it's hard to believe, but I watched a few days ago on discovery, that Lockheed was the firs to develope Jet aircraft for the USN, in early 30's. Though they scrapped the project thinking that there was no threat. And so.......................................... |
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Little known fact, Germany had one aircraft carrier in WWII, and as for this whole German Army larger than US Army, well yes, that was true, in 1940! We had the 16th largest Army heading into WWII, at the end we had the world's largest. (I think, I may be wrong, since it was 10 dead Russians for every dead German I may be wrong about the numbers post WWII.) And as you mentioned earlier, we had none of the equipment key to winning the war, we developed them during the war. Hell, the German technolgy really wasn't that great, they just kept building everything bigger than before, not that hard, but however their rockets and jets were far better than what we had, but a super charged P-51 could still keep up in a dogfight.
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