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Originally posted by ange7
yeah but the question was "what would have happened if Hitler won the war" .... oops my bad...you actually answered that in the first sentence.
ps "Luck was on our side" ... umm you mean the allies including the US and the USSR where on your side. Russians alone lost 20 million in that war and did the bulk of the hard yards. US troops turned the tide .... pretty sure Britsh "luck" had nothing to do with it.
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Well the first sentence was "I not so sure what would have happened.", but that doesn't stop me having a guess given given what I know about the history of aviation. Who knows for sure what would have happened?
Wait a sec, I have an answer, if Hittler hadn't have won the war he wouldn't have killed himself. Problem solved, question answered.
Oh well now we know the answer, or another one of the possible answers, lets move on...
Yes, luck had a lot to do with it, back in 1940 both the USA and Russia were neutral, they weren't our allies. We would have fallen during the winter of 1940 if operation Sea loin had be put into place. The USA would have never entered the war, in fact they didn't enter the war until 1941, after sitting on fence for ages. As for the USSR they had a pact with the Germans until 1942, it wasn't until that pact ran out they entered the war when the Germans invaded.
So the fact that in the end the USA and the USSR were our allies during the war doesn't enter into this. That happened in history years after we were defeated.
So luck has a lot to do with it, as the Germans stopped there attacks just before we were defeated in the air, the Germans decided to bomb our cities rather than our neatly defeated airfields, allowing us time to regroup.