lmao you mention that north korea was russian pilots you also forgot china pilots to thats what allies do unlike usa as they sttod on side lines and watch germany take over france what you guys do there ????? fck all france was your allies and you did shit only britain went in there tank god huh as to damage the french ship fleet that was number 1 fleet on the seas then ???? oh god could only tell you if germans got a hold of them what they had planned for usa
You have no idea how much I wish you had at least a basic grasp of the English language.
I apologize for having left out Chinese pilots in the Korean War. But I guess that wasn't as large an omission as the SIXTEEN ENTIRE NATIONS you excluded from your comments about the Korean War. Oh, and that doesn't count the additional FOUR U.N. nations that did not supply fighting troops but supplied field hospitals AND the ONE MORE NATION, that was not even a member of the U.N. at the time that also supplied field hospitals. That totals TWENTY ONE ENTIRE NATIONS YOU TOTALLY MISSED when you commented on the Korean War.
When you mentioned how the U.S. did not stop Nazi Germany from taking over France, and I will add that Nazi Germany also took over a number other nations prior to the U.S. becoming engaged in the war, you yet once again show your complete and utter ignorance of the era and the U.S. military of the era.
First off, after the horrors of WWI the American public believed in isolationism. They believed the Pacific and the Atlantic were more than enough to keep the U.S. safe and that the nation should not become involved in foreign wars and that the nation should only have a defensive force military. There was a very powerful feeling that the U.S. should not become involved until December 7th, 1941 when the Imperial Japanese attacked the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Then the mood changed and the citizens were fully behind the war effort.
Second is that when WWI began the U.S. was not anywhere near prepared to go to war. At the beginning of WWII the U.S. military was ranked 17th in the world, one number below Romania. It numbered only 190,000 soldiers. When mobilization began in 1940, the Army had only 14,000 professional officers. The average age of majorsa middling rank, between captain and lieutenant colonelwas nearly 48; in the National Guard, nearly one-quarter of first lieutenants were over 40 years old, and the senior ranks were dominated by political hacks of certifiable military incompetence. It would grow to 8.3 million by 1944, a 44-fold increase.
The military budget had been slashed after WWI and there were shortages of everything. There was such a shortage of ammunition of every type that everyone from a rifleman to artilleryman to antiaircraft gunner went years without firing a single practice round. The crews that manned the coastal artillery hadn't even test fired their big guns for over 20-years.
Weapons of every type were in short supply and most were outdated and inferior to what would be needed to fight the Nazis and Imperial Japanese. There were very few tanks, and they were obsolete. There was a shortage of parts for them so even training new crews on obsolete tanks was difficult General Patton came from a wealthy family and he personally ordered and paid for spare parts to try to keep at least most of the obsolete tanks under his command operational.
New recruits and draftees initially trained with fake machine guns made of wood with broomstick barrels and anti-tank gunners would also use fake weapons that hurled bags of flour at trucks that had TANK written on the side of them because there were not enough operational tanks to be used to train gun crews with.
The standard anti-tank weapon was a puny 37mm weapon that was later nicknamed "The Door Knocker" because when it saw combat it's rounds had a nasty habit of just bouncing off the thick skin of German tanks and letting the tank crew know you were around, because you just knocked on it's door. It was soon replaced with a 57mm model, but compared to the German's 88mm, it was still understrength.
Every aircraft in the U.S. Army Air Corps was obsolete compared to both the Nazi and Imperial Japanese aircraft and would not have stood a snowballs chance in Hell in the skies with ME109's and FW190's and Zeros. Trying would have been suicide.
The Army still had a number of cavalry units, horse mounted soldiers. When the world saw what happened when the brave Poles made cavalry charges against Nazi Panzers everyone knew the days of the cavalry were over. They were slaughtered. Most U.S. cavalry troops ended up in the new tank corps.
The Navy was almost nonexistent. Few capital ships existed, and most of those that did were old coal fired obsolete highly outgunned ships compared to the enemy they would fight. The Destroyer Fleet was made up of old slow under-gunned "four stackers" from WWI. There were few submarines and they were in such terrible condition they were not safe to go deeper than around 100 to 150 feet or the leaks would overwhelm the pumps. There were only a few small aircraft carriers. Those of the type that served in the war were yet a thing of the future for the U.S. Navy. The originals were like the USS Langley, a Proteus-class collier, was converted to an aircraft carrier and commissioned in 1922. The USS Langley's flight deck was 523 feet long, top speed was 14 knots, had a crew of 410 and an air group of 30 aircraft. Now compare that to the types of aircraft carriers that fought the war. Flight deck, 862 feet, top speed, 32.7 knots, crew, 2,682 men, air group, 91 aircraft.
The standard Marine and infantryman's weapon was a M1903 Springfield 30-06. That is as in designed in 1903, an old bolt action design rifle. When the Marines went ashore on Guadalcanal they were still armed with the M1903 Springfield. The M1 Garand rifle, semiautomatic 30-06, was designed in 1936, but due to lack of military funding few had been manufactured and distributed to different units.
The U.S. lacked transport shipping, and lacking escort vessels crossing the Atlantic would have been extremely risky and many troop ships would have ended up on the bottom, along with many other types of ships because from 1939 until the beginning of 1943 the German U-boats ruled the Atlantic.
The Boeing 299, later to be designated B-17 once purchased by the U.S. Army Air Corps wasn't purchased until 1939 and then between July 1939 and March 1940 they were only purchased in batches of five at a time. In July 1940 an order was placed for 512 B-17s.
But soon it was realized that the original design needed a major redesign and all the early models were not combat worthy. The aircraft got it's name, The Flying Fortress, because they were designed for coastal defense. As I mentioned the military was designed for homeland defense only, and poorly at that. They were like long range artillery that would go out and bomb/sink enemy ships coming to invade the U.S. At that time the battleship was queen of every navy, aircraft carriers were a new novelty and not a part of fleets, so the "Flying Fortress" had no need to be able to defend itself against enemy aircraft since none existed that could cross the Atlantic or the Pacific. But in the skies with ME109's FW190's and Zeros the B-17 would have to be able to fight off attacking fighter aircraft much of the time because there were no long range fighter aircraft to protect them to and from their targets. So the aircraft had to be redesigned and have as many gun positions as possible added and new higher horsepower engines had to replace the original engines, so it was almost as if the first year and a half to two years of B-17's never existed. Over 12,000 B-17's were built.
Almost 4,000 B-29's Super Fortresses were built.
Over 8,600 B-24 Liberators were built
Then there were B-25's and B-26's that also needed to be built.
And of course for all those 'B' aircraft, as in bombers, different size, weight and type munitions had to be designed and built.
For fighter aircraft there was the F4F Wildcat, F4U Corsair, F6F Hellcat, P-47 Thunderboldt, P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang and roughly another dozen, some specialized variants of others. All had to be designed and built.
The M4 Sherman tank was not approved by the Army until April 1941, over 50,000 had to be built by the end of the war.
The M26 Pershing tank, the American 'heavy tank' did not see combat until early 1945. Only 4,550 were built but as the war went on it was clear that the M4 Sherman tank, a 'medium tank' was greatly outclassed by the German Tiger tanks and something that stood a chance of going toe to toe with them was needed.
All those things are barely scratching the surface of why the U.S. was incapable of coming to the aid of France, or any other European nation, or any other nation for that fact, that it did.
When you say the French were an ally of the U.S., well, they could have been a better ally when U.S. troops invaded North Africa, Operation Torch. Our ally, if you remember, surrendered ti the Germans and then helped the Germans. When the troops of Operation Torch went ashore on French North Africa, in particular the French-held territories of Algeria and Morocco the French ships and shore batteries fired on the invading Americans. It was the Allied hope that the French would welcome the U.S. as liberators and not fight for the Germans and try to keep the landings from being a success.
The French coastal batteries contained four 194-millimeter guns, four 138-millimeter guns, three 100-millimeter guns, and two 75-millimeter guns; the incomplete battleship Jean Bart, acting as a stationary gun platform, added four 380-millimeter guns mounted in one turret to the defensive armament along with one light cruiser, seven destroyers and a number of lesser ships. Among the first Americans ashore were officers with jeeps who sped to the locations of the French positions under a white flag and asked if the French would fight against the U.S. invasion. The answer was they would. The Americans tried to convince the French to not resist the invasion, but our noble ally, the one you say we failed to help even though we were virtually helpless at the time ourselves, would not listen and the fired on the ships and the landing beaches and U.S. forces had to fight our ally and silence their guns.
I bet you knew all about that, didnt you? That's why you thought France was the perfect nation to use to try to make the U.S. look bad .... as you so desperately continue to attempt to do, but utterly fail at each and every time.
What you said, how; "the french ship fleet that was number 1 fleet on the seas" when France was invaded. Well, you are keeping a perfect score, you have been wrong 100% of the time. In 1940, the French fleet was the fourth largest naval force in the world after Britain, the United States and Japan. The French Fleet was made up of 7 battleships, 19 cruisers, 71 destroyers and 76 submarines. The French Fleet was not that much more powerful than the Italian Fleet in 1940, and in some ships the Italians outnumbered the French. The Italians had 4 battleships (3 fewer than the French), 7 heavy cruisers and 14 light cruisers (totaling 21 cruisers, 2 more than the French, though the breakdown of French ships I have does not designate between heavy or light cruisers), 119 submarines (43 more submarines than the French had), 120 destroyers (49 more destroyers than the French had). The only clear edge the French had was in battleships and possibly also in cruisers depending on how many were heavy or light cruisers.
Regardless, when France was occupied it had the 4th largest navy in the world, it was not; "number 1 fleet on the seas" as you so incredibly inaccurately claimed it to be.
Tell me, do you honestly believe the pure crap that you spew or do you just make it up as you go along and hope that you will sound believable and that no one will know that you are as full of shit as a Christmas turkey?
