"dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 23/05/2013 03:11, Simon Brown wrote:



cos we were importing half our food

Not during the war itself.

There would have been mass starvation if the U boats had stopped the food
and fuel.

No, just a lot more effort would have
gone into growing more food in Britain.

Even with the imports it was hard

There is quite a bit of evidence that the British
actually ate rather better during WW2 than they
had done before that, basically because they
were forced to eat more locally grown veg etc.

and the rationing was getting worse.

That was certainly a nuisance and very irritating,
but no one starved to death because of it.

There was also plenty of OIL based fuel, it was all being used for the war
effort. Its quite hard to run planes on coal.

Yes, we were discussing what was used in agriculture.

The Nazis might have won if they had delayed the war by 6 months and
doubled the u boat fleet.

They might have won if they had driven through to the
Balkan oil fields instead of concentrating on Moscow.