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[dirkd101]

I did mean after Dunkirk Rockslinger. He should have annihilated the BEF on the beaches of Dunkirk, that would have put Britain in dire straits. A minimal air campaign coupled with his U-boat's and a sound strategy to just strangle Britain's ability to wage any sort of warfare on mainland Europe.

 

[dirkd101]

Having just about anybody in charge of the Luftwaffe other than Goering would not have hurt either.

Absolutely! There was a bumbling idiot if there ever was one.

 

[rld]

I did mean after Dunkirk Rockslinger. He should have annihilated the BEF on the beaches of Dunkirk, that would have put Britain in dire straits. A minimal air campaign coupled with his U-boat's and a sound strategy to just strangle Britain's ability to wage any sort of warfare on mainland Europe.

If he really had not wanted to have to defeat Britain, he should have tried to negotiate peace with them after they were off the continent, publicly and obviously. He didn't.

Dunkirk clearly did not go as well as it could have for the Germans, but nothing in war does.

 

[y2kmark]

When did the war start? When did the Americans stop selling to both sides and join the war? When did the war end?

I was never very good at ancient history.

Depends on who you ask - I favor September 18, 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria, though not entirly a "world war" until later, it never really stopped after 1931 until 1945.

 

[diehard]

this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky

 

[Petzel]

After Pearl Harbor Admiral Yammamoto said "I fear all we have done is wake a sleeping giant" and he wasn't wrong.

 

[Rockslinger]

After Pearl Harbor Admiral Yammamoto said "I fear all we have done is wake a sleeping giant" and he wasn't wrong.

And here is the rest of that quote: "And filled him with a terrible resolve."

 

[Aardvark154]

The Brits cranked up production on 5 basic planes, under the supervision of Lord Beaverbrook.

While Lord Beaverbrook took the glory, the credit really should go to Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman Bt., GCB, DSO, MC etc. . . The Air Member for Research and Development.

 

[rld]

And here is the rest of that quote: "And filled him with a terrible resolve."

The Admiral was a bright fellow. IIRC he had calculated the industrial potential of the US and determined that Japan could not win the war and advised against it. Good call.

 

[Rockslinger]

The Admiral was a bright fellow. IIRC he had calculated the industrial potential of the US and determined that Japan could not win the war and advised against it. Good call.

Admiral Isoroku Yammamoto spent 2 years at Harvard, several years living in the U.S. and spoke fluent English. (No, he did not pitch for the Boston Red Sox.) He saw first hand the huge industrial capacity of the U.S. He advised going to war with the U.S. and signing the tripartie pact with Germany and Italy.

 

[Aardvark154]

The Admiral was a bright fellow. IIRC he had calculated the industrial potential of the US and determined that Japan could not win the war and advised against it. Good call.

Fleet Admiral Yamamoto had spent time in the U.S. as a Graduate Student at Harvard and as an Assistant Naval Attaché at the Japanese Embassy in Washington. He was fond of Americans and poker (which he learned in the U.S.)

Rockslinger beat me to it - by the way there is a missing against before war in your post.

 

[Petzel]

And here is the rest of that quote: "And filled him with a terrible resolve."

Oh yes, thanks..........i did forget that part!

 

[diehard]

Admiral Isoroku Yammamoto spent 2 years at Harvard, several years living in the U.S. and spoke fluent English. (No, he did not pitch for the Boston Red Sox.) He saw first hand the huge industrial capacity of the U.S. He advised going to war with the U.S. and signing the tripartie pact with Germany and Italy.

Fleet Admiral Yamamoto had spent time in the U.S. as a Graduate Student at Harvard and as an Assistant Naval Attaché at the Japanese Embassy in Washington. He was fond of Americans and poker (which he learned in the U.S.)

Rockslinger beat me to it - by the way there is a missing against before war in your post.

May I ask where you guys got this info?

 

[Aardvark154]

May I ask where you guys got this info?

I won't speak for Rockslinger but a ton of books. One you might look at is Edwin P. Hoyt's Yamamoto: The man who planned Pearl Harbor

or if you are a internet only type: http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=N1