In message , robert
arndt writes
"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
.. .
By late 1940 Britain alone was outproducing Germany in terms
of most major military systems despite a much smaller population
and economy,

In 1940, you ditched all your equipment on the beaches of Dunkirk and
had little more than the Home Guard to protect you from invasion.

And yet within a few months we had thirty divisions tooled up and ready.
(Where *was* that German invasion? Oh, right, too scared of the Royal
Navy to come across. Imagine Eisenhower trying to plan D-Day, with the
major British ports unusable because of enemy bombing and shelling,
Kriegsmarine units operating freely in the Channel, and over a tenth of
the invasion shipping sunk as it was mustering...)

Your
armor was garbage just like your ships

Ah, yes, those inferior ships. The ones that either sank the
Kriegsmarine or sent it cowering to port.

and the Kreigsmarine only
needed around 300 U-boats to choke your little nation to death WITHOUT
a need to invade.

So why didn't they do it? Oh, yeah, they couldn't.

You brag about production while accepting massive
handouts from the US that saved your sorry ass... pardon me for
laughing my ass off!

Meanwhile, the Germans nobly ignored the tank factories of
Czechoslovakia, the arms works of Liege, the mines and forges of
France...?

ALL Germans would agree with you there... still they did launch the
world's greatest land invasion in history and would have made it to
Moscow had they not been bogged down in the earlier offensive in the
Balkans bailing out the Italians.

Napoleon did better - he actually *took* Moscow.

Still didn't win him the war, though.

--
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Julius Caesar I:2

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