Text 8333, 64 rader
Skriven 2005-02-01 05:31:26 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
   Kommentar till text 8321 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Ww 2
============
31 Jan 05 22:49, Ed Hulett wrote to Gary Braswell:

 EH> Gary Braswell -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 GB>> Ed Hulett -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:

 EH>>> They could have won even after the US entered the war. Had the 
 EH>>> weather favored them longer at Bastogne, they may have broke free 
 EH>>> and at least prolonged the war.

 EH>>> Tonight, Sunday, on the History Channel they had a program about
 GB>> secret weapons of WWII and later. If Germany had been able to build some
 GB>> of the planes and weapons that had been developed, they could have 
 EH>>> bombed the US. They had a stealth flying wing bomber that looks 
 EH>>> very much like the B-2 Spirit. Had they been able to produce more it 
 EH>>> might have turned the war in their favor.

 GB>> That is the Horten. I saw it a few years ago in the Garber 
 GB>> facility. I have some pics if you are interested. Both the Germans 
 GB>> and Japanese developed some really forward looking aircraft in '44 
 GB>> and '45, stuff that we are only today just making work.

 EH> Correct. The designer fled to Argentina in 1945. If the Germans 
 EH> and Japanese had been successful, we would have been in deep doo 
 EH> doo.

 GB>> Even had they developed these aircraft in large numbers, I doubt 
 GB>> it would have changed much.

 EH> It very well could have. The Horten was designed as a long range 
 EH> bomber and could have reached the US east coast from Germany. Had 
 EH> they had it and their nuclear program been farther along they 
 EH> could have nuked New York City, Washington DC, etc.

 GB>> Believe it or not, 1945 saw the largest production of German 
 GB>> aircraft in WII. But they had two major shortages, fuel and 
 GB>> pilots. And what pilots they had were trained for a matter of 
 GB>> hours, not weeks or months, but hours, before being sent up.

 EH> Those are the only reasons for Germany losing air superiority. Had 
 EH> they come out with their jet fighters sooner, the Allied bombers 
 EH> would have been decimated.

 GB>> Even with superior aircraft, they would have been shot out of the 
 GB>> air by our pilots who all were far more experienced.

 EH> Not if they had introduced the jet fighters sooner.

This is a perfect example of how Hitler's megalomania cost them dearly.  The
ME-262 was the first operational jet fighter in the world, and despite its high
maintenance early engines it would've wrecked havoc on the US 8th Air Force -
except for one thing.  Hitler insisted that it be used as a bomber, which
forced the engineers to redesign its fuel carrying capacity - and that delayed
its entrance into the war until the spring of 1945 when it was too late to be
any help to the war effort.  Six months earlier would've made a world of
difference.


John 

America:  First, Last, and Always!
Go to www.madgorilla.us for all your Domain Name Services at the lowest rates.

--- Msged/386 TE 05
 * Origin: We are the Watchmen of our own Liberty! (1:379/1.99)