On Dec 28, 7:03*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:04:41 -0600, "





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On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:41:57 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:27:30 -0800 (PST), harry
wrote:

It was the head of RAF Bomber Command who said if he couldn't kill a German
worker standing at his lathe then he was happy to kill him sleeping in his
bed. Of course that meant he was going to kill the civilian worker's wife
and kids as well....

Er that was revenge for Coventry, and Birmingham and London, Bath,
Glasgow, Port Glasgow. York, Bristol Cardiff. I could go on.
was also Rotterdam, Warsaw, Antwerp etc.

There has been a lot analysis of that over the last 70 years. The
first bombs to fall on London were actually an accident. That resulted
in a British attack on Berlin. Then Hitler switched his focus from
destroying the RAF fields to bombing cities.
In reality it turns out that if that did not happen, there would have
been a lot different path, perhaps resulting in the invasion of UK.
By wasting his effort on cities, the RAF was allowed to maintain air
superiority over Britain and preventing the invasion. There were
plenty of Luftwaffe officers who knew Hitler was wrong and that
bombing cities was pretty useless from a military perspective but
revenge is a powerful master.

Shhh! *You spoiled the ending. *Harry hasn't watched that movie yet.

We always assume that just because we won WWII we must have been
destined to win. There were a couple of bad decisions by the axis
that, if decided another way, would have made the result much
different. If Hitler had concentrated on invading UK instead of
attacking the Soviets, he was very likely to have had all of Europe
under his control and made it virtually impossible to attack him from
the west. At that point the US would have needed to draw more naval
forces into the Atlantic, making it a lot easier for Japan to succeed
in holding the Pacific islands.
The Americas would be in much the same situation UK found itself in,
around 1940.
The US might have ended up negotiating a "Chamberlain" type treaty
with the Axis.
Then the Soviets and China would have been a lot easier for the axis
to take.
We would have been left fighting over sub saharan Africa or India as a
foothold into Europe and South America to prevent a foothold into
North America.

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Valid points.