Posted on 04/13/2012 4:53:33 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
That’s actually the origin for what would eventually become the UN. The allies were referred to as the United Nations and when FDR put together his proposal for the League of Nations II, he decided to use that reference for the name of the new world organization.
I don’t see a downside to that. Who wouldn’t want to work out with Jane Russel?
I thought Butch died defending his carrier in the S.P., anyway- according to Bill Stern (radio sports show star)- Butch was the son of mob lawyer, to Al Capone.
Thanks for cluing me into the Hanson Baldwin articles.
His comments today on Air Power are particularly prescient.
Please note his frequent references to "future wars."
No nonsense about a "war to end all wars" from Baldwin, in 1942.
I guess it is not always how many things you can break but how fast you can replace what is broke and have more breakers or weapons. The Allies were able to out produce there enemies while becoming very proficient at breaking things including their enemies will.
Btw I really do appreciate Homer’s post find them very interesting even important. I look forward to them daily and search when I miss them.
The epitome of this is the construction of the American “Large Cruisers” of the Alaska class. They were beautiful ships, but had no real role in warfare when they were being commissioned in 1944. Why did we build them? Simple. Because we could.
Other nations like Britain and all the Axis powers scrounged their limited resources to try to build what they needed, and generally failed. The United States built whatever it wanted, including the Alaska class ships and atomic weapons, because we could.
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