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kwaigonegin said:
Re: Aircraft Carriers II

Japan and Germany were never able to match the production capabilities of the US. Their strategic goal was to use their existing might to destroy allied forces as quickly as possible, to capture and to hold ground. When that fail the war swung rapidly towards the Allied side. There was no way they could've kept up in a war of attrition with the lack of resources, manpower not to mention their factories being targets of constant air bombardments.
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Exactly, Germany and Japan only wanted America to back away. They could never hope to win a war on American mainland - for they don't even have enough boats to transport enough troops there! America also had numerical advantage - Germany had a population of around 70 million in 1940, while Japan had a poulation of around 73 million in 1940. America on the other hand has a population of 132 million back in 1940. It would take both Japan and Germany to attack American mainland simultaneously to even have a sliver of chance to win, and that's with them both not engaged and bog down in any other theater of war (eg. Britain, Europe, Russia, China).

The axis forces was simply too spread out, there was no chance for them to mount any meaningful attack on America unless they completely abandon all their operations in other areas and concentrate their forces on America.
 
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"Tokyo appears to have given up hope of winning understanding from Beijing and Seoul. “Urging Japan to apologize has become a tool for South Korea and China to wield influence,” says Abe’s adviser. “We need to send a convincing message to Europe and to the US. Winning the trust of our Western democratic allies is even more important” than winning trust from neighbors."


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German Army soldiers getting into formation in the square in front of their headquarters
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A soldier from No. 3 Commando armed with a Thompson submachine gun and wearing a balaclava, training in Largs, Scotland, 2 May 1942.

On 18th October 1942 Hitler issued his notorious ‘Commando Order’

"For some time our enemies have been using in their warfare methods which are outside the international Geneva Conventions. Especially brutal and treacherous is the behaviour of the so-called commandos, who, as is established, are partially recruited even from freed criminals in enemy countries.

From captured orders it is divulged that they are directed not only to shackle prisoners, but also to kill defenceless prisoners on the spot at the moment in which they believe that the latter, as prisoners, represent a burden in the further pursuit of their purpose or could otherwise be a hindrance. Finally, orders have been found in which the killing of prisoners has been demanded in principle.

I therefore order: From now on all enemies on so-called commando missions in Europe or Africa, challenged by German troops, even if they are to all appearances soldiers in uniform or demolition troops, whether armed or unarmed, in battle or in flight, are to be slaughtered to the last man.

It does not make any difference whether they are landed from ships and airplanes for their actions, or whether they are dropped by parachute. Even if these individuals, when found, should apparently be prepared to give themselves up, no pardon is to be granted them on principle."


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C47 Skytrain over Egypt 1944, from Air Transport Command (ATC) North African Division delivering urgent supplies during WWII.

Air Transport Command (ATC) is an United States Air Force unit that was created during World War II as the strategic airlift component of the United States Army Air Forces, now know as Air Mobility Command.

By the end of World War II, Air Transport Command had developed into a huge military air carrier with a worldwide route pattern. From an organization of approximately 37,000 personnel (6,500 of them overseas) in December 1942, it numbered nearly 210,000 in August 1945, the bulk stationed overseas (150,000). By the end of the war the command had 3,090 major transports assigned. The C-47 remained the workhorse transport of ATC throughout the conflict, never exceeded in total by any other type. Its numbers remained steady throughout 1942 and 1943, but increased dramatically in the last 18 months of the war, rising to a total of 1,341.


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