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Originally Posted by T@T
Iceland?
700 miles or so of beautiful North Atlantic sea, Hitlers subs would have picked them off with ease and thats if the Allies could even get their troops set up in Iceland in the first place. As soon as Hitler would have got a clue what they were up too he would have set up shop on the Faroe Islands and bombed the hell out of them before they even left Iceland.
2) Agreed for the 1940's but todays tech not so much, B-2's can leave South Carolina, bomb Iraq and return home without landing.
3) Conflicting reports on how close they really were, some reports say they actually detonated a "dirty" bomb as far back as 1943 but then the development place was flattened by allied bombings.
And Einstein was very worried how close they were. Just be glad we'll never know!
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Iceland is the closest island we have. NFLD is much farther. The Allies were able landed 2-5 million troops and supplies on England because by the time (and before) USA entered the war the Allies were winning the Atlantic battle by a wide margin. So yes they could have made it to Iceland.
2) IMO....WWII Germany was far better equipped to defend themselves than was Iraq. They had 3 series of AA batteries which the Allies had to fly through. Add in Britain and they could add 2 more. Possible but tough.
3) Yes, agreed. Good won out fortunately!
