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11-21-2012, 03:51 PM
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  Actually it was the Allies ability at the logistics of war, our (the Allies) ability to produce vast quantities of all the things that it takes to win a protracted conflict, and the inept decisions made by Adolf Hitler and the Imperial Japanese.
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11-21-2012, 04:38 PM
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Well, it sure wasn't the Spits and Hurricanes at the early stage. It was the Chain Home radar system. They emitted Death Rays, or something.
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11-21-2012, 04:38 PM
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11-21-2012, 05:03 PM
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Ya got to love these simplistic and/or simpleton "who won what" questions that pop up every so often.. And the comic book knee jerk politically correct responses to them.. And in light of this current rendition it looks like we can add to the list the ubi zoo ignorant and/or lighten up Francis aka humorless responses to responses! 
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That being a pilots's 'perception' of what is going on can be very different from what is 'actually' going on. Last edited by ACE-OF-ACES; 11-21-2012 at 05:12 PM.
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11-21-2012, 05:28 PM
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WWII, like WWI, was a war determined by simple raw manufacturing power. What won the war was the fact the combined economic power of the Allied countries was much larger than the combined economic power of Hitler's Germany and all its conquests, plus Italy as well as Japan and all its conquests. Plus the fact the largest of the Axis economies, Germany, was mismanaged from 1939 to 1942 and produced much less than it could have. Part of this was Hitler's doing, he was afraid of another revolution in Germany along the lines of the 1918 one if he cut back on luxuries and instituted rationing and a 24 hr a day war economy. So Germany remained on a peacetime manufacturing schedule for the first 3 years of the war, with German citizens enjoying most of the perks of peacetime. And of course, slave labourers and the workers of defeated countries won't give you the same production levels as committed citizens. So for example, even though France produced a lot of weapons and resources for Germany, and even though its millions of captured soldiers provided much useful slave labour in German factories, the amount of production was far less than the French economy would have produced had it been for its own armies and people, and much of the products provided were either of poor quality or deliberately sabotaged. On a more relativistic level, you can also say Hitler and the Japanese militarist's philosophy and moral code alienated the great majority of the world and stiffened their resolve. When you declare the rest of humanity are inferior and worthy only of death and extermination, it tends to provide incentive to resist. Last edited by *Buzzsaw*; 11-21-2012 at 05:35 PM.
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11-21-2012, 05:37 PM
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If I recall correctly the war was won by the P51 and it's ability to bounce .50 cals off the road into the soft underbelly of Tiger tanks!
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11-21-2012, 05:52 PM
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I'd say internet revisionist historians won it. Given a couple more generations of twisting, not only will the Axis powers really have been victorious, they will have been the victims in it all by being pushed into a war they didn't want because of evil allied aspirations and expansionism.
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