On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 17:04:25 -0500, Mark Anderson wrote:

}In article says...
} World War II was 1939 - 1945. The United States entered the war late in 1941
} after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Battle of Britain had already been fought
} and won, by Britain, by the summer of 1941. Hitler had already turned the bulk
} of his troops and equipment toward Russia, where he suffered such severe losses
} of both men and materials that he might as well have surrendered at that time
} (as an aside, this is the same mistake that Napolean made and the same
} consequences). The outcome of World War II was already established when the US
} entered it; although, US entry greatly expedited the end of the war.
}
}Read the recent Pulitzer Prize winning book by Rick Atkinson, "An Army at
}Dawn," the first of a three book trilogy. The other two haven't been
}written yet. The book is about the Africa campaign, the first
}involvement of the US in WWII in that hemisphere. According to those
}accounts, Britain had zero chance of invading Africa by herself let alone
}continental Europe. Even the US with Britain learned a lot and lost a
}lot of men through their adventures and mis-adventures in Africa. I'm
}only halfway through the book but it's very enlightening.
}
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Britain was already bombing the German homeland in 1943. Your author is
also overlooking some serious possibilities. For instance...

The world's foremost scientists, including Albert Einstein, were the ones
who convinced Roosevelt to develop the atom bomb in the belief that Germany
was working on it. If the US had not entered the war these scientists might
have approached and convinced Britain to do so. Maybe.

My point is that there is no way of knowing how things would have proceeded
if the Japanese had not brought America into the war -- either
technologically or strategically. Remember, Britain invented RADAR and was
using a SONAR like system. They had the technological expertise to
construct an atom bomb if they had the will to do so.

Britain's allies were also going full speed ahead. By the end of the war
Canada had the world's third largest navy and fourth largest air force, for
example, and they were a country of a mere 15 million people at that time.
I have not checked what Australia and Brazil were up to.