Yankeepapa6 wrote:
From New York, or a corresponding Canadian port, convoys sailed every day of the week. At a given moment there were always 100 or more ships crossing the Atlantic from west to east, and a similar number returning. Each convoy was timed as exactly as an express train, each ran on a different route, and each was scheduled to arrive on time at a fixed but changeable “rendezvous” some 200 miles to the west of Ireland. There it was met by a destroyer escort which took it through the more dangerous home waters until, approaching their destination, ships were dispersed to their respective unloading ports. If it were not for the US, England would be speaking German. By its self, it lacked the means or ability to defend its self. Surely not the ability to defeat Germany. Bye Bye
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What a load of hogwash.Whilst your country was selling goods we fought off the Germans.We, then were not alone.In those days we had an empire bigger than the US. If we had not defeated Germany in the Battle of Britain, as big as you are you would not have been able to fight off Japan,Germany,Rumania and Italy.You only came in because Germany declared war on you.I do not want to run down the US a country I admire enormously and where I have spent a lot of time but some of you seem full of hate for Britain.