Originally Posted by Mannlicher
Originally Posted by kingston
Thea last time the world squeezed Germany like this we got WWII.

actually up until the war started, the US accommodated, was friendly toward, and did nothing to hinder the Nazis.
Corparate USA had dealings with them.


What do you call lend lease to Britan and signing over IIRC 99 destroyers to them???

Our Navy had a undeclared war with Germany in the North Alantic waaaay before formal war was declared on us by Germany.
They sunk 1 or 2 of our destroyers and damaged another IIRC
We also actively were depth charging some of their subs.
One instance in a 8 or 12 hr running battle with a german sub IIRC.
That was hidden from the public and I think either our destroyer or the german sub was sunk in that engagement.

Also our long range surveillance planes played a small role in the Bismark episode IIRC.

What do you call the expansion of our protection zone into the alantic prior to our entry into WW2 and our surveillance and reporting to the British of German sub positions.

Please stop using drunk history as a counterpoint for relevance in a thread....

Last edited by renegade50; 09/27/22.