Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

---

JABQ04 said:

---

whoop1995 said:

---

JABQ04 said:

---

Japan never had a chance. As some have said, with luck they could have delayed the inevitable longer but they were on borrowed time.

I like this graphic to illustrate just how outclassed the Japanese were.

---

All of those ships were deployed in the pacific? How many more were made for the Atlantic?

---

I don't have those numbers but I'd be interested to see as well. Keep in mind, ships did serve in both the Atlantic and Pacific as well. Plus I think it's more astounding our numbers fighting a 2 ocean war and still dominating the Japanese.

---

BB-35 USS Texas comes to mind.

---

BB-36 USS Nevada, at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; Supported the landings at Normandy, June 6, 1944; at Iwo Jima, February - March 1945;at Okinawa, March-June 1945

ABATTBQ87 said:

---

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

---

JABQ04 said:

---

whoop1995 said:

---

JABQ04 said:

---

Japan never had a chance. As some have said, with luck they could have delayed the inevitable longer but they were on borrowed time.

I like this graphic to illustrate just how outclassed the Japanese were.

---

All of those ships were deployed in the pacific? How many more were made for the Atlantic?

---

I don't have those numbers but I'd be interested to see as well. Keep in mind, ships did serve in both the Atlantic and Pacific as well. Plus I think it's more astounding our numbers fighting a 2 ocean war and still dominating the Japanese.

---

BB-35 USS Texas comes to mind.

---

BB-36 USS Nevada, at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; Supported the landings at Normandy, June 6, 1944; at Iwo Jima, February - March 1945;at Okinawa, March-June 1945

---

I know some of the North Carolina and South Dakota class battleships, such as the USS Washington, spent time in the North Atlantic when the Tirpitz was still a threat, then moved to the Pacific.

USA*** said:

---

Neither Japan nor Germany had the industrial and logistical capacity to defeat the US, UK and the Soviet Union once they were allied. Pretty sure they couldn't have beaten the US even if it were alone. They got in their first hard, early sucker punches in and rocked each nation, but couldn't keep up the fight once we found our feet again.

---

I agree with this, not only did Japan never really have a chance, Germany never really had a chance of actually defeating the Allies once the US got involved. The manpower and production simply wasn't there. They were never going to Sealion and even if they had taken Moscow the manpower required to simply occupy Russia would have been too much, especially with the way they treated the people who the Russians had themselves treated horribly.