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Originally Posted by solarfox
Does anybody know that if, somehow the Germans managed to secure a beachhead and the Brits were fighting them, would the US land troops during the Operation? If so, does anybody have the plan or know where to find info about it. I would assume the conquest of England and its little islands around it would take several months, adequate time for the US to help? Right?
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Aside from groups in the US opposed to involvement in any European war there was the matter of the condition of the US military. The US Army had just started a small expansion and for the first time in a decade muster over 200,000 enlisted men. It was badly equipped, and organized as a training cadre, barely capable of emergency defence of the US. The army reserrves werre largely the National Guards of the individual states. Those were badly trained and poorly equipped.
The US Navy had some expeditionary capability. Two aircraft carriers and a squadron of battleships, a couple squadrons of light and heavy crusiers, and smaller ships were available in the Atlantic Fleet. The USN also had a single brigade of Marines available on the East Coast ready to send overseas.
Even if Roosevelt could obtain persmission to send direct combat aid to Britian it is hard to see how a hastily scratched together and weakly armed corps could help.