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No, I don't agree, neither do historians. The mistake was pushing the Eastern Front before defeating England.

Again, Hitler never intended to invade/defeat England. Russia has always been his main target.

40k day missions, of short runs or after the US made it safe to come out and play. 7377 lancasters and 156,000 sorties sounds pretty impressive? Try 1,893,565 sorties with 32,263 aircraft....now that's impressive......and effective.

Yanks always like to wave their willy, the correct number is 762,462 sorties over Europe combined by B17,24, 26, 25, A20, A26.

The Brits needed a fighter, why didn't they build one if they already had a fuselage design and an engine? Because they couldn't.

Ever heard of the Spitfire?

. Not only quickly, but a superior fighter in every way, mostly because of it's wing design.

Superior? Read Chuck Yeager comment in my message above…

The only shortcoming of the Mustang (that doesn't sound like a Brit name) was high altitude performance which was not specified in the contract and not anticipated by NA

Actually the high altitude was the P51 strong point. The British invented something called the “Universal Wing”. This permitted the same version of the Spitfire to change wings impressively quickly complete with differing armament to optimize performance at low, medium and high altitudes for operations against ground, naval, bomber or fighter opponents. The P51’s best performance was at high altitudes, at medium and especially low altitudes it was inferior to the Spitfires even without the “Universal Wings”.
The P51s were ideally suited to high level long range strategic bomber escorts. The Luftwaffe’s Fw190s had the firepower to deal with the heaviest Allied bombers, but their performance waned at higher altitudes. The Me109s excelled at high altitudes and could dogfight better with the P51s, but lacked the Fw190s firepower to bring down the heavy bombers. As long as the P51s were operating at high altitudes, they were at their best.

Who was objecting to the engine swap?

The American Arms Contractors who originally designed the flawed Allison engine.

Merlins were built by the Packard Motors Company of Detroit, Michigan.

In license of Rolls Royce Motors.

60 years later.

Better late then never and it produced UK’s poodle attitude with the US.

Yes, I know my history. Try reading up on the German-Japanese Agreement and the Anti-Comintern Pact, both of 1936.

It was NOT a military alliance in any sense of the word. All it did was promise member states to share information on Soviet-backed communist parties to try to contain the spread of communism. The only mention of military matters was that if one member state was attacked by the USSR, then the others promised to remain neutral. Which is like saying if someone hits you, I promise to watch and not help him.

The Tripartite Pact, was an agreement signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940 by Saburo Kurusu of Imperial Japan, Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany, and Galeazzo Ciano of Fascist Italy entering as an alliance. The Tripartite Pact was subsequently joined by Hungary on Nov 20, 1940, Romania on Nov 23, 1940, and Bulgaria Mar 1, 1941.

Yeah Google can do a lot for you, Brucey, but understanding the real world behind all these pacts and treaties is an entirely different matter. Again, it is not a military alliance but a mutual defense pact instead. Germany hopes that this is the first step in finally getting Japan to sign a true military alliance with it, but Japan would never trust Hitler again after the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Japan did hope that this new pact would prevent Stalin from asian expansion. It also hoped that it would intimidate the Americans. The terms included promise of mutual aid if any one of the signatories were attacked by a power not already involved in the ‘European War’ or ‘China Incident’. This satisfied Japan’s desire not to risk war with Britain and was obviously directed at the USSR and the USA instead. Japan was permitted to occupy French Indo-china with a ‘policing force’ by the Vichy and thus cut some of the American aid to Chiang.

I've already shown they were allies. As far as the American people being reluctant to go to war, absolutely. But once pissed off enough to do it, we did it like no one else could.

No, you did not, you merely copied what Google found for you. Again, if you’ve actually would have read my message instead of only looking at it, you would have noticed that Japan offered to pull out of the Tripartite Act if the Americans stopped interfering with Asia and they never declared war on Russia. Nice ally…

Hitler declared war on the US after we declared war on Japan & it's allies

Contrary to you, FDR knew that Japan was not an official ally to Germany and therefore declared war to Germany/Italy seperately on Dec.11th, 1941, 3 days after declaring war on Japan. Know your history, Brucey.

Bwahahahahaha...The japs couldn't stand any front after they were nuked.

They could stand the fire bombings before Hiroshima got nuked and which infact killed much more people than these 2 nukes. For the Japanese life didn’t have any meaning, but the fact being invaded by the Russian (and eventually the Yanks) was enough to surrender, after the Emperor decided, because the Generals wanted to fight until the last man.

I'd love to know how Wilson, who stayed out of WW I as long as possible and suffered a debilitating stroke in 1919, brought down the British Empire?

The US stayed out of the war long enough to bring the UK on the brink of exhaustion therefore being totally dependent of the US. The Leage of the Nations was merely a police to limit the power of the British Empire. A stroke, yeah… that shows you that even a US President is a mortal, Brucey.