golfdave
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Scotland (U.K.)
- Car(s)
- Mk7 Golf GT Estate
I watched a lot of History Channel in its early days when it seemed it was 24/7 WWII specials, so I'm familiar with Hitler's Arian "Living Space" concept.
The Spitfire was the most advanced fighter at the beginning of the war, regardless of what Britain's main fighter was.
I, admittedly, had to look up more info on Britain's involvement in the Manhattan project and how close Britain was to a bomb, because I don't recall reading or watching much about this claim. I did look it up, but what I found seems to suggest the claims of Britain being so much closer to a bomb are a bit exaggerated. Britain had great engineers, but it did not have the population and money that America did. The Brits deserve a lot of credit on a lot... including cracking Enigma, which was huge, but the evidence seems to suggest they were going to be far surpassed by the money and engineering masse of the United States whether they contributed or not. The US was spending about 20x what Britain was on Atom Bomb development. Churchill knew the Americans were going to get there first, so he did the right thing and contributed to the effort. America, not fully trusting the Brits at the time, decided to cut them out fairly early it appears. See below:
I've replied above with a link to the atomic heritage website....that's the real facts behind it...
Having the Germans bombing the sh1t out of us & spending loads borrowing money from the USA to buy munitions & food we couldn't afford the money to divert to the Tube Alloys project...simple economies...
The History channel does get stuff wrong....