Lucky for the Germans that he did live long enough to see Berlin overrun in April/May of '45. Had Germany held on til August we might (read that LIKELY) would have seen Germany being the victims of the world's first atomic bombs.
Not a nice thought, but remember, the USA, Britian, and the USSR had already decided that defeating Germany first was the goal.
Would the A-bombs have been used in Europe if the war there had lasted longer?
Much as I hate to say it, I think they would have.
Anyway, back to the website: Pretty interesting planes there.
Ya read a lot of speculation about "what if" Germany had lasted long enough to get the likes of the Ta-183 into production and service............folks who seem to do the speculating always just "assume" that the Allies would have been screwed.
Try this out:
"What if" the US had decided to pull their heads out of their rectums in, oh, 1937, and started pushing for the development of the planes that eventually became the P-51, F4-U, F6F, P-47, and when Germany got frisky back in the early war America had sent some of them over to the other side of the pond? Say, in 1940, the P-51B is already operational, the P-47D's are in service and operating in England, etc.............
Would Germany have been stopped in Poland, or Belgium, before they could conquer the remainder of Western Europe?
What if scenarios are amusing, but quite useless, other than for entertainment.
"What if" Stalin hadn't executed the majority of his best and most experienced officers? "What if" (and I am trying to remember this correctly) the designer of the La5 and La7 had not been locked up for political crimes, and had seen what was needed and the LW had been met on the Russian border by planes of equal quality? How far would the Germans have been able to advance into Russia before being chopped to ribbons?
Just curious..........
