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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 912482" data-attributes="member: 14668">In 1940, prior to the entry of the United States in the war, Great Britain was facing the imminent prospect of invasion by German troops based in recently conquered France.Due to a critical shortage of rifles, some members of the British Home Guard were actually being issued spears and pikes to fight German troops with. American civilians were actually being asked to donate their hunting rifles, shotguns and revolvers so that they could be shipped to England in order to alleviate the arms shortage.The only reason that Germany was ultimately unable to invade England was due to the Royal Air Force preventing the Luftwaffe from gaining the necessary air superiority over the English Channel. Had Germany been able to knock the RAF out and neutralize the Royal Navy, it would have been a relatively simple matter for them to conquer an England whose civilian population was essentialy unarmed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 912482, member: 14668"] In 1940, prior to the entry of the United States in the war, Great Britain was facing the imminent prospect of invasion by German troops based in recently conquered France. Due to a critical shortage of rifles, some members of the British Home Guard were actually being issued spears and pikes to fight German troops with. American civilians were actually being asked to [I]donate[/I] their hunting rifles, shotguns and revolvers so that they could be shipped to England in order to alleviate the arms shortage. The [I]only[/I] reason that Germany was ultimately unable to invade England was due to the Royal Air Force preventing the Luftwaffe from gaining the necessary air superiority over the English Channel. Had Germany been able to knock the RAF out and neutralize the Royal Navy, it would have been a relatively simple matter for them to conquer an England whose civilian population was essentialy unarmed. [/QUOTE]

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