| As Adrian said, nothing new in that article, but I do feel the article should've made the point that if it wasn't for Britain, the War would've more than likely been over by the end of 1940/early 1941. How close were the Germans to getting air superioty over England?
Probably no one could've defeated the Germans and their allies on their own. Maybe the Soviets were best equipped to do it, but we'll never know. 20 years ago you could argue that the real victors of the war were the Soviets, they had stretched an Empire into Eastern Europe, and in a strange way it was probably easier to see how the hand of Stalin hand struck. Now it is different, people who are 20 can't remember the Eastern Bloc, or iron curtain, or the Cold War, or East and West Germany for that matter and it is easier to say today how good all the allies were in defeating the evil Nazis. Personally I think it is a very mistitled article
__________________
In memory of 1891923 Sgt Albert George Edward Mount RAFVR, 115 Squadron Bomber Command, whose Lancaster was shot down on 8th June 1944 over Montchauvet, Yvelines. |