WW2 facts.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So without the US, it is likely germany would not be defeated, even if she could not conquer the world.

Yep, the correct answer is "It's not that simple."

Meanwhile, some of us are studying "sticks and stones" technology so as to be ready for WWIV.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So without the US, it is likely germany would not be defeated, even if she could not conquer the world.

Yep, the correct answer is "It's not that simple."

Meanwhile, some of us are studying "sticks and stones" technology so as to be ready for WWIV.

Agreed.  Historical 'what ifs' are fun, but chancy. Still, it's hard to imagine that without Lend-Lease and the later massive deployments of US troops there wouldn't have been a comprehensive Nazi victory in Europe.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

The 18th INF was one of the first us infantry units deployed and in combat in africa. They then participated in the invasion of sicily where they captured mount pellegrino. They caught a break storming omaha beach, arriving 30 minutes late due to the clutter nearshore. From there they would go on to the battle of the bulge and the crossing of the remagen.

In Omnia Paratus, til the last round.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming 'Mad Jack' Churchill fought in WW2, frequently carrying a broadsword, longbow, and a set of Highland pipes (nobody's perfect).  Some highlights:

He first served in the British Army - posted to Burma - from 1926 - 1936.  He left the army in 1936 and edited a newspaper in Kenya, worked as a male model, and had a small roll in the film 'The Thief of Baghdad'. 

He re-joined the army in 1939. He and his squad ambushed and destroyed a German patrol in 1940. Shortly thereafter, he fought with distinction at Dunkirk.

In 1941, he was second-in-command at Operation Archery in Norway.

In 1943, during the Sicily Campaign, Churchill - assisted only by a corporal - infiltrated the town of Molina, captured a German observation post, and took 42 prisoners.

In 1944, leading a rather muddled collection of 1500 troops in Yugoslavia, only Churchill and six commandos managed to reach their objective (a German gun emplacement). The six were immediately killed or wounded by mortar fire. Churchill was playing 'Will Ye No Come Back Again' on his pipes when he was knocked out by a grenade.

He was interrogated in Berlin and shipped off to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, from which he and an RAF squadron leader promptly escaped, to be recaptured 140 miles away (they walked).

In 1945, he was released (not formally - the Germans just packed up and left) from Tyrol concentration camp along with 140 other prisoners.  He walked the 93 miles to Verona, Italy where he was picked up by an American patrol.

He was then posted to Burma, but by the time he arrived, the atomic bombs had been dropped and the war over. His reaction: 'If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another ten years!'

Don't get many of him to a pound.

Boru