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In the end I do not think it would have accomplished anything.
Blowing up the Hoover Damn would hurt a small portion of America. The US's resources were spread out all over the United States.
A "terrorist" attack would have put fear into the people, but in the end it would have only rallied the US people even more and given them more resolve to end the war and more than likely "punish" Germany on an even greater scale.
The US industrial machine was so vast, theres nothing the commando team could have done to materially effect the war.
But I do think Cmmando raids would of tied up alot of the war machine..America had a bigger war machine ...Harder to hurt then the Germans Machine...
It might of diverted resources to prevent further attacks.
I don't think a commando attack on the US, anywhere, would've done Germany any good. Keep in mind that the country was really unified after Pearl Harbor. Even the Isolationists were all for attacking and gettin some back. A commando attack would not have done any good....raids that small, in a country that has no "front line borders" anywhere near it, would not have diverted any significant amount of troops from critical front line positions.
How was the US running at full speed after Pearl? The US war effort grew stronger and faster with each passing year.
Yes ofcourse it did. As the war progessed more factories, more workers etc etc were assembled, hence the higher output pr. year. (The German industry ouput aslso increased pr. year)
It was actually a changeover of factories from domestic to miltary production, and even at the height of US mobilzation, US production is reliably estimated to have never exceeded 75% of its maximum warmaking potential
Still this doesn't mean the US wasn't doing all it could, it was but it had to build up the industrial output over time just like any other nation. You can't just start off producing thousands of a/c from one week to the other, you need the factories, materials workers to do the job first.
This whole theory that the US industry wasn't even producing 75% of what it could is extremely far fetched.
What are you basing that conclusion on. Read Overy, the leading postwar economic analysis on the war before making claims like that. Surrogate evidence can be found that the US was not even close to working to full potential from the fact that the US never even introduced a true scheme of rationing. They couldnt even utilize all the war production that they did enlist. At the time, US industrial capacity exceeded 45% of total world production (I have even read claims that it was a high as 62%, but I dont accept that figure).
Now as for the German commando attack affecting the US industrial output, I agree that it really couldn't to any really maeningful extent, but it has never been about that either. The purpose of the attack would be to cause terror within the US, Canadian possibly the Alaskan public and last but not least set up a multitude of weather stations radio transmitters.
What would that do?
Nothing. All it would do is hurt Germany even more. The people would have been more angry and would have more resolve to fight the war and win it. You have seen how the people were after Pearl.
No weather stations and radio transmitters would last. If the Germans could set them up the US could take them out just as easy.
have ever been to Labrador , its the size of Germany and has a population under 50000 today , I know when the GAF came over they were amazed at how isolated it was . I lived in Goose Bay and I believe the next town was 400nm awayIt would scare them witless and force the US government to spend huge amounts of money on securing its coasts, cities, towns, villages and so on, basically everyone would want protection.
That isn't true as the German put up several weatherstations on US soil and they all functioned beautifully, and none were found during the war. Some were found after the war and some have been found recently, still functioning...
German weatherstation:
From Uboat.net (Read the entire article, it's very interesting):
uboat.net - U-boat Operations - Weather station Kurt erected in Labrador in 1943
Do we really need to call the Japaneses Camps "concentration camps" ...I do not think they were starved and worked to death and gas as the Nazi's did to the Jew... They were interned and keep against there will...But concentration camp bring up pictures of die staved people in a mass grave... Or it just me I guess..???.......... ...
My Mom worked at the one in Bishop California..She drove a truck to and from LA with supplies
I went to visit that camp last summer. Its now a national monument due to the historical significance of it.
Best way to call it is a "detention camp".