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**babopeddy** · 10-30-2010, 04:58 PM

Thanks for your insight Colin, believe it or not I just read a Churchill biography about a year ago. I'll keep my mind open to
learn more about said famine. One thing probable is had the US not intervened Britain would have been lost.
I guess from a present day viewpoint the UK is our closest ally, come hell or high water.
Stalin was the embodiment of evil, his only saving grace was Russian winter and US invasion.

Britain would have been lost? You know I was watching something a few years ago, probably on the History Channel, and they were talking about Hitler's plan to invade Britain. They went over some of the problems he faced, one being secrecy and the difficulty for the Germans to keep their invasion a secret. One of the problems was landing craft design. They had landing craft disguised as fishing boats, but this limited the size and the number of troops that it could carry. They showed one of these "fishing boat/landcraft" it was very small. Also, I doubt the German Navy could have stealthly launched a surprize attack against Britain. The long and short of it was that the Germans were never in a position to have an effective invasion of Britain, and they didn't even try to explore such a possibility with a raid.

As to Stalin and D-Day, Albert Speer said the the American 2nd Front was really American daylight bombing and this is what really helped the Soviets gain their ground.

10-30-2010, 04:58 PM	#13
babopeddy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 376 Senior Member	Thanks for your insight Colin, believe it or not I just read a Churchill biography about a year ago. I'll keep my mind open to learn more about said famine. One thing probable is had the US not intervened Britain would have been lost. I guess from a present day viewpoint the UK is our closest ally, come hell or high water. Stalin was the embodiment of evil, his only saving grace was Russian winter and US invasion. Britain would have been lost? You know I was watching something a few years ago, probably on the History Channel, and they were talking about Hitler's plan to invade Britain. They went over some of the problems he faced, one being secrecy and the difficulty for the Germans to keep their invasion a secret. One of the problems was landing craft design. They had landing craft disguised as fishing boats, but this limited the size and the number of troops that it could carry. They showed one of these "fishing boat/landcraft" it was very small. Also, I doubt the German Navy could have stealthly launched a surprize attack against Britain. The long and short of it was that the Germans were never in a position to have an effective invasion of Britain, and they didn't even try to explore such a possibility with a raid. As to Stalin and D-Day, Albert Speer said the the American 2nd Front was really American daylight bombing and this is what really helped the Soviets gain their ground.
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