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Originally Posted by rogueteens
A couple of minor points, Churchill had plenty of chances to negotiate a truce and even during "The Darkest Hour" refused.
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Churchill saw the wisdom in standing his ground. Hilter was a one trick pony - he would promise he wouldn't attack, would stage "incidents" and then claim he was protecting "Germans and German interests" and then would attack.
Sure, Churchill could have signed a peace treaty... And then watched as Germany build up in invasion force in France while Hilter start complaining loudly about how "Germans were being treated" in the UK.
He did the right thing.
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Originally Posted by rogueteens
Yes America did provide (sell) loads of hardware but their troops were badly trained and their leaders refused point blank to learn the lessons learnt the hard way by the British in the war with Germany. an example being that the USAF insisted on restarting day raids, ignoring the RAF advice to fly by night resulting in huge losses.
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Not at all. Americans believed in brute force, not hiding in the darkness of night and maybe hitting the target. They wanted to destroy their targets, not play guessing games.