So MacArthur relied on the 5th Air Force and light naval support... He had to have the ships to land his Army ground troops, so that was basically it?
Question... How was the Navy support for MacArther's arm of the attack vs. Nimitz supporting the Marine offensives? Did one get more priority?
The Air War, especially the 8th against the Luftwaffe, was just as important as a theater of war as any other. I've read a bunch of articles and...
That was pretty much most of the German forces in one raid. Was the shortage of fighters for England about the pilots actual planes? I've read...
Does anyone know the average size daylight raid that Germany would send during the height of the Battle of Britain? I was just reading about the...
Absolutely. Fascist/Nazi sympathies were all over American Industry due to the Corporatism philosophy of Fascism/Nazism.
Sloan of GM stated his company was too big to worry about who's side was on who, and after the war he and Ford sued the US government for US...
People like Allen Dulles and Prescott Bush were moving money around for the Nazis up to 1941 with the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell and the Union...
One of FDR's son wrote memoirs from the Atlantic Charter meetings and other important meetings during WWII where FDR said to him that exact...
Promoting French colonialism in a post-war world that was supposed to be rid of that, as well as the US either overthrowing governments or placing...
After Hitler helped Franco in Spain to grab power, I'm surprised he didn't get Spain into the war, especially from the Mediterranean angle. They...
There are a few good ones on Net Flix
In 1943 the US alone built 9500 plus heavy bombers, 7200 plus medium, 11800 plus light, and 23000 plus fighters. By mid-1943 between the USA and...
I was just posing the point that has been said over and over that required all of those countries combined to beat one small country in the middle...
Stalin's motto was "Socialism in one country." He thew Trotsky out because he wasn't for the world wide revolution as Trotsky was. That's not to...
I didn't say Stalin would attack Germany, and I know the British and French were thinking of bombing Baku in 1940, but irregardless the West nor...
But would they become belligerents in active combat against the West, or supply Germany while the Western capitalist countries war against each...
Would the USSR have became active belligerents against the Western Allies? They were supplying Germany, yes, but we were supplying the all the...
I also don't buy the argument that the Western Allies couldn't defeat Germany without Russia. A fully mobilized America and a Britain that was...
Absolutely. I keep getting in debates with people about this, with some saying Russia won the war and we didn't put our full weight into it, etc....
