pr00ne. Yes, we had a big Empire. Just how long do you think it would have taken to get the troops and equipment from Canada, India, Australia, NZ etc, as opposed to Hitler being just across the Channel? Don't forget, if we had lost the B of B, the USA would not have had the big offshore aircraft/troop carrier in place, D Day wouldn't have happened, and then where would we be?
Not to mention how fractured that Empire was, the cohesion of the Wehrmacht, Waffen SS and so together with old Joe Stalin being a genuine ally of Hitler at the time while Joe Kennedy Snr, US Ambassador did us no favours whatsoever with his subjective reports back to he White House and the rather agreeable attitude of the Dublin Government toward Hitler, we were very much alone and against a much larger and superiorly equipped land fighting force (Germany eventually generated over 400 Divisions to our 40, albeit neither were fully deployed simultaneously, but you get the picture.
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