My home town - 4000 years of history...

[Munchaab]

Not sure why YT is throttling back this channel from my alerts feed but it is...

Fell on part 3 above by accident (even though I subscribe and hit the alerts button) and missed the prior 2...

[DaJavoo]

The WWII history of the U.S. airing its smalls laundry in the U.K. is a shame.

The experience and recuperation from WWII for the U.K. is prolly one of the fundamental differences that shape general outlooks between our countries to this day.  It took two generations for prosperity to return...and even now it's doubtful.  For instance, How many still live in substandard housing?  How many families never got back on their feet through loss and deprivation from lives to rationing?

England was ass-ended ~ whereas the U.S. just had to roll up sleeves to pitch in towards the end...which would have come a helluva lot sooner had pacifist pols been rousted by the damned truth of the matter.  Media reporting was as skewed then as now. 

It's regrettable the Axis didn't strike the U.S. earlier.

Thanks again for sharing Leicester's history, Munch!  

[Munchaab]

The WWII history of the U.S. airing its smalls laundry in the U.K. is a shame.

The experience and recuperation from WWII for the U.K. is prolly one of the fundamental differences that shape general outlooks between our countries to this day.  It took two generations for prosperity to return...and even now it's doubtful.  For instance, How many still live in substandard housing?  How many families never got back on their feet through loss and deprivation from lives to rationing?

England was ass-ended ~ whereas the U.S. just had to roll up sleeves to pitch in towards the end...which would have come a helluva lot sooner had pacifist pols been rousted by the damned truth of the matter.  Media reporting was as skewed then as now. 

It's regrettable the Axis didn't strike the U.S. earlier.

Thanks again for sharing Leicester's history, Munch!  

The Axis didn't strike the US at all - if you're talking about Pearl Harbour then that was allowed, to sway the politicians/public and it was Hawaii, well off US borders and not a state until long after the war...

In some ways it was the US stopping oil supply to the Japanese against China (started years before WWII) that brought the Pacific war into WWII - that's why it ended later, it was not part of the same conflict, but was more beneficial to the USA...

Sorry to say it, but the yanks didn't have our backs, they had their own pocket book in favour...

We (UK) didn't even finish paying off the debt until 2008 - and now the USA has bases all over the Pacific, Europe and former British colonies over Africa and the Middle East...

The Russians finished WWII after Hitler made the mistake of operation Barbarossa - bringing the soviets in against Hitler - if we'd have kept the yanks out of it, (a few years more maybe) we'd have had the same defeat of the NAZIs and have kept much of the British Empire - but you can't rewind time - history is written...

[DaJavoo]

The WWII history of the U.S. airing its smalls laundry in the U.K. is a shame.

The experience and recuperation from WWII for the U.K. is prolly one of the fundamental differences that shape general outlooks between our countries to this day.  It took two generations for prosperity to return...and even now it's doubtful.  For instance, How many still live in substandard housing?  How many families never got back on their feet through loss and deprivation from lives to rationing?

England was ass-ended ~ whereas the U.S. just had to roll up sleeves to pitch in towards the end...which would have come a helluva lot sooner had pacifist pols been rousted by the damned truth of the matter.  Media reporting was as skewed then as now. 

It's regrettable the Axis didn't strike the U.S. earlier.

Thanks again for sharing Leicester's history, Munch!  

The Axis didn't strike the US at all - if you're talking about Pearl Harbour then that was allowed, to sway the politicians/public and it was Hawaii, well off US borders and not a state until long after the war...

In some ways it was the US stopping oil supply to the Japanese against China (started years before WWII) that brought the Pacific war into WWII - that's why it ended later, it was not part of the same conflict, but was more beneficial to the USA...

Sorry to say it, but the yanks didn't have our backs, they had their own pocket book in favour...

We (UK) didn't even finish paying off the debt until 2008 - and now the USA has bases all over the Pacific, Europe and former British colonies over Africa and the Middle East...

The Russians finished WWII after Hitler made the mistake of operation Barbarossa - bringing the soviets in against Hitler - if we'd have kept the yanks out of it, (a few years more maybe) we'd have had the same defeat of the NAZIs and have kept much of the British Empire - but you can't rewind time - history is written...

I was actually thinking more about the European theater ~ especially Britain.  The U.S. should have come to assist when first asked by Churchill ~ not the lend-lease bullshit FDR cooked up.  Granted, the depression left folks the world over shy about war ~ but ya'll had no damn choice in the matter once the bombs started falling ~ even before ~ 1940 Dunkirk should have been the loudest cry for help we should have heard.

What the U.K. went through was a travesty that could have been pruned vastly had there been more help.  Frankly, the U.K. might have held on ~ but it was getting dicey, even with Russia.  Russia suffered from Nazi war more than any other country.

Once the U.S. mobilized, the next three years finished what could have been accomplished in the 1st three, prior to Pearl Harbor.

[Munchaab]