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Old 04-06-2016, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Greg Reid View Post
It's fortunate for the whole world that their resources lagged far behind ours.
It is important to understand that the United States from a economic and manufacturing standpoint are in the same position Germany was in those days.

In the case of Germany and what very little help from the other axis powers was, and Germany only the size of Montana, had little hope of winning a three front war. Still, if there hadn't been the war, it would have taken another ten years to have gotten to the Moon, among many other things our military and the Russians military take for granted today.