My Research on WWII

[Squirrel2004]

I would like to add, on the Germans side, that they developed many cool thinsg.
1) The rocket. V-1 and V-2
2) ME262. A jet fighter
3) the helicopter
4) even more amazing, they started developing a stealth, long range bomber. The project was terminated in early 1945 (low $$). It's plans were lost until recently, and, amazingly, it looked almost 75% just like the modern B-2 bomber. Weird coincidance. *Note* when I say stealth, I don't me to the radar of that time, I mean modern radar. Makes it even better.

If they war lasted another year, they could have been bombing the US with the B-2 look-a-likes, landed on England with transport helicopters, and also shot down thousands of Allied bombers with the fast Me262. Scary.

 

[Marko]

You forgot one very important reason why Germany lost the WW2: oil.

In order to manage a war you need fuel for your planes and vehicles.

Germany possessed only a few oilfields during a war with very limited output. They had created big oil reserves before the war and got much oil from Soviet Union until 1941 but already in 1942 most reserves were spent.

In terminal stages of the war Germany had tanks which couldn't move and planes which didn't take off because of no fuel.

 

[Squirrel2004]

True, Marko, I forgot that. The Allies blew the oil supply in August 1943 at the Ploiesti, Romania, from North Africa. That's another thing. The Allies had long ranged bombers. Germany had none that could make a round trip like from North Africa to Romania. Oil got so low, they had to abandon tanks in the muddy Ardennes because they were stuck and couldn't tow them.

[This message has been edited by Squirrel2004 (edited April 05, 2001).]