Do Americans realise, that if the islands of Gt. Britain had succumbed to the jackboot of tyranny?

Question

the flags of the Swastika and the Rising Sun would have been blowing in the wind all over your country, Stars and Stripes forbidden. . If we had acquiesced, as members of our German royal family wished, you would have no air bases, no shipping facilities. America would have been crushed like a nut in vice, the Japanese from the south, the Nazis from the west. We Britons after 2 years of hell, we stood alone in the World to save our planet from evil, whilst the mongrel race dithered. most probably didn't know there was a war, until the Japanese knocked 7 bells of shite out of you,
you decided to help us out. And we are forever grateful. but remember the Brits, the USA would have been too late, if our islands had fallen.

I see I've hit a raw nerve

Answer 1

Hang on Americans, the asker has a point. At the time he refers to, Russia, and the slimy mass murderer, Uncle Joe, where in cahoots with the Third Reich. France had fallen, the isles of Britain were indeed alone to save the world. Her women and children were slaughtered in the thousands by the evil onslaught,the like of which never seen on our planet before. They stood firm, with no immediate hope of outside help, with all the chicken so called neutral countries, bending over backwards arseholing round Hitler. the RAF including our cousins from the Commonwealth, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and oz, together with the Free French Poles, and volunteers from USA, thwarted the much vaunted Luftwaffe. thus saving the World from decades of warfare. The British are the proudest nation on Earth, and one shouldn't take them lightly

Answer 2

Sorry, T.J. !
We Yanks are a proud group of people; rough and tough and always ready for action. We all can take credit; and we all made mistakes that cost lives. We Americans abandoned many men in the Phillipines to the Japanese that created the scenario for the "Death March" of our men. So, America was not perfect, and rumors that FDRoosevelt knew hours before Pearl Harbor was to be hit and he elected to do NOTHING (this way, America's economy would improve by war, and America's opinion prior to Pearl was to not get involved...) And what did the Japanese say after they struck us Yanks?
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." - Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
I wonder if the radical Muslims (back home, on their relative ranches) wondered the same thing, after mowing down the Twin Towers in New York City that fateful day on September 11, 2001???

071207 4:28

Answer 3

Allies?
Canada
Australia
French resistance
USSR
Egypt
China
Polish resistance
Italian resistance
German resistance
Jewish uprisings
Many many more

But no your right...It all boils down to Great Britain and America. You see if you guys hadn't of dug that huge channel in between you and the rest of Europe surely the whole world would have fallen. Good digging. Or maybe it has something to do with Nazi Germany fighting a war on 2 fronts and all of the Axis involved in similar confrontations. Also the fact that Nazi leaders did not have any kind of invasion craft to get to Britain. Also the Fact that America was sending Millions of dollars in aid, Food, Weapons, Vehicles, Planes, and "military advisers" but that is all in-consequential. Good job pointing that out, I will now forget everything I know about World war 2 and believe you. Thanks.

Answer 4

Do Brits realize that the only reason they were able to hold out that long is because the most massive industrial power on Earth was providing you AND the Soviets (who were the ones that in all reality stalled and defeated Hitler, and probably could have finished Germany off without either of our nations helping) with all of your war material? How much equipment did your army have after Dunkirk? I'll tell you, VIRTUALLY NONE.

I get your point, and you're right. You guys stood alone, awash in a sea of enemies. But it was our guns and butter that allowed the Island to stay afloat. The Arsenal of Democracy was what saved the world.

Answer 5

Well, given that the Battle of Britain ended either in late 1940 or mid 1941, and if Germany had been successful and then had to invade Britain, that would have lasted maybe a year or so, I think we would have been ready to defend ourselves, considering what we were able to do upon entering the war in late 1941. Us and the Russians would have been able to take care of things, thank you very much.

This isn't to downplay Britain's contributions and sacrifices, just to say that there's no reason to think the war would have been lost without Britain's efforts.

Answer 6

No, i don't discover it ironic i hit upon it particularly logical. think of: whoever is so militantly against one concern will in all probability be the two fervent approximately yet another concern. the middle way is religious tolerance. I easily have on no account met an atheist or an agnostic who would say: "all Muslims must be killed, yet they'll burn interior the countless hearth of... er... not-adhering-to-the-logical-innovations-a... Come on. that is logical that the basics are going to take it the two procedures. "we can do away with the rights of one team of folk just to rigidity each and every of something of folk with our innovations." It has continuously worked like that. seem at historic Rome, spreading of christianity with hearth and sword in early middle a while, the crusades, the inquisition and witch burnings, the holocaust,.... Are you seeing a trend?

Answer 7

Do you blokes realise that America was already helping you guys out with gunpowder, iron and other commodities of war long before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. GB may, or may not have made it without the industrial strength of America behind you.

Sidebar.
The Japanese sucker punched America and did knock us down, and we kicked their arses clear across the Pacific for it.

Answer 8

Winston Churchill was the Man of the 20th Century. He stood alone and Britain rose to the challenge.

But, no swastika or Rising Sun flag would have ever flown over the USA. Not for a nanosecond.

Answer 9

If russia didn't fight it would have been game over.


Britain and america took till 1944 to open a second front..

Churchill wanted to attack the underbelly of germany through italy and africa for 2 years..the ****, prolonging the war for that amount of time.

Answer 10

I wouldn't quite put it like that but essentially you are correct.I see some have mentioned the Lease-Lend Programme.
The US didn't volunteer that help,they made us pay for it and at extortionate rates of interest that almost bankrupted the UK.
They also forget that The Battle of Britain had already been fought and won before they entered the war.
Unfortunately too many Americans tend to believe the Hollywood version of events rather than history.