Small arms? We use guided missiles, drones, and various HE bombs now. Since we were the "invaders" in Both Europe and Asia, there's really no reason to have put boots on the ground. We could have offered support with the above, since there was no reason to claim or reclaim ground. Would have been really simple to stay ahead of the allies with good weapons, supporting their advance.
Wouldn't make much of a difference if we used our modern arms. It's the man and they did pretty góod . Don't get me wrong, I'm sure our guys would love a good saw or 240 at times
Tom Clancy wrote a book in the 90s about a modern world war minus the nukes. It was chilling, and like many of Toms books,probably a very close, and reliable guess. It was called Red Storm Rising. A good read.
We will never again have wars like the two world wars. The nukes would fly far sooner given the circumstances. In a WW2 setting, probably about the time the germans crossed the Maginot line.
The Germans with their manpower limitations could have made good use of the increased firepower of the Garand or the like. I hate to think what they could have done with a 1000 or so B-52's armed with 60's era munitions.
WWII, was pretty advanced and our military hardware from 1950-60's has striking resemblence to that of WWII Germany's. Even WWII there were nukes, drones, missles, plenty of unconventional warfare (special units), radar, and lord knows what else. They were not as advanced in some was as today but development in that era brought us to where we are today and in some ways the analog tech back then was more simple and reliable.
Always thought that if one modern submarine could go back in time. Six sub launched missiles from afar, 1 for each of the Japanese carriers on the morning of Dec 7th right before launch when the carriers were full of fueled and armed planes.
Would have been incomprehensible to the Japanese.
"Put none but Americans on guard tonight." -George Washington
Got to remember if the Allied force could have developed modern weapons as we have today so could have Germany and Japan. Germany was close to missile delivery systems and nuclear weapons. Look at where our early nuclear scientist came from
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
We will see the answer to this question soon enough. The 20th century was the bloodiest and cruelest ever due to technology advances. Just wait on the next huge worldwide convulsion.
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