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Absolutely true, and damn boy, didnt know you were the military savant...



Eh, I just like history. Not really the pomo prattle that gets past around--the "histories of everyday life" which makes every damn seismic event so boring--but the blood and guts shit. World War II is soma for that, big, towering leaders on every continent and the whole world a fucking hothouse for everything that came after.

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the North Atlantic in early 1941 was a different tactical situation, because the Germans used single ships like the Bismarck to prowl the convoy/supply lanes, the british only had 2 or 3 bonafide carriers in the area, and their planes sucked ass (1920's Biplanes)




That is something I hadn't thought of. Yamato cowered for most of the war because of the threat of land-based planes (and as nasty as the Japs were on Guadalcanal, you have to give them credit for basically sailing every capital ship up and down that miserable island to shell the Marines there). But I hadn't considered how poorly the British planes were. Didn't I read that the torpedo bombers that hit the Bismarck actually piloted by a small American contingent?

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How many people remember that it was HITLER who declared war on the United States, 4 days after pearl harbor? Many historians believe that had he NOT done this, it may have been another 6 months to a year (or more) before America DIRECTLY became enemies with the Krauts, which changes everything...




Very true. Just about everyone (Cordell Hull, George Marshall) begged FDR to mention Germany in his speech before Congress, but he refused. It's the gaping hole (among millions of smaller but equally exposed holes) in National Socialist propaganda. Okay: so he just wanted to right the wrongs of Versailles. That's cool... And Britain and France declared war on him. Okay. And Barbarosa was a pre-emptive strike against a "neutral" country that would have attacked him anyway. Fine. But it the Fuerher-agonistic theory sort of falls apart there.
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