1217 America's concerns
At the time of the war decision-making conference in Berlin, Germany, a similar meeting was being held in Washington, D.C.
The high-level US leaders attending the meeting were looking at President Roosevelt, who was sitting at the top of the meeting, waiting for his speech.
Marshall, as the right-hand man of the President of the United States, of course, also sat in his place at this time, and next to him sat the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Nimitz.
And, of course, General Eisenhower, the Allied commander-in-chief, who is known in real history, as well as other department officials in the United States.
Roosevelt, of course, did not keep these people waiting, and he opened his mouth and said: "How is the decision to transfer troops from the Eastern Front to intensify the offensive against Japan? ”
"We are constantly replenishing the losses of the 1st and 2nd armies, and the Japanese defense line is crumbling and threatens to collapse at any moment." Eisenhower opened his mouth to report: "General MacArthur is preparing a plan for attacking Malaya. ”
Mark Arthur is planning a new counterattack in Australia, Thompson and others are also gaining an advantage in New Guinea, and the Americans are about to win the battle from defeat to victory, and everyone's hearts are relieved.
"The pressure on the Eastern Front is already very small, and Germany clearly has no intention of going to war with us." General Marshall looked at the sickly President Roosevelt and opened his mouth to report the latest situation.
After careful analysis, Germany will not take military action against the United States in the short term. The two sides are separated by an Atlantic Ocean, and it is clear that the war is not so easy to fight.
While all these states suggest that the Germans are indeed preparing for an attack across the ocean, they are clearly not preparing enough.
"The Germans conducted a large-scale airdrop paratrooper exercise in the UK, which was very large in scale and had a very strong deterrent effect." Marshall spoke with a melancholy face about the German paratrooper exercises.
When it comes to this exercise, the attention of the United States is really very high. The Germans parachuted about 50,000 paratroopers in Britain and joined the exercise in batches and methods, which shocked the United States very much.
The United States, on its part, is also training and preparing for the use of paratroopers, but their size and combat experience are inferior to their already tried and tested German counterparts.
What is even more terrifying is that Germany is conducting such a large-scale airborne exercise at this time, on the one hand, to frighten Britain, and on the other hand, it is obviously sharpening its knives against the United States.
In this situation, only the United States, a country isolated overseas, needs such a large-scale paratrooper to threaten.
If we include the landing combat units trained by Germany when it landed in Britain, Germany may have put 100,000 to 120,000 troops on the beachhead in the first batch of attacks, which is already a very considerable number.
Counting the armored forces that Germany might join the battle, and those terrible Leopard tanks, the American side had to reconsider the security of its own east coast.
Marshall had always wondered what the German Führer was planning against the Americans, but he never knew which part of the United States the plan was aimed at.
In his opinion, venturing a landing in the United States is probably the least efficient and least likely thing to happen. But the Germans were indeed preparing such a plan, and it seemed to be growing on a larger scale.
Whether the Germans were going to come to the United States to "send a wave of express delivery" or whether they had other plans, Marshall has never been able to figure out, so he has not been able to make any targeted deployments.
The American Zhuge Liang has now been made out of temper by the "evil" Führer of the Third Reich, and Marshall has lost even basic self-confidence in all deployments against Germany.
"The British high-level has reduced their secret contacts with us, which shows that the other side's paratroopers are very threatening." Another officer of the intelligence service spoke at this time.
Britain, which had surrendered to Germany, had always been a haven for American intelligence gathering against Germany. It was full of easy information, such as the number of shells produced by the British for Germany, and the docking times of German warships in British ports.
For a little money, it was possible to obtain a lot of military and economic information that Germany would not have dared to think of, and the British government, which had surrendered, was happy to provide some convenience to the United States.
It is a pity that with the conduct of this huge airborne exercise, the British side had to reconsider its position.
The Strait was no longer a moat, and the German paratroopers, navy, and landing force could easily reach England, once again drowning in a bottomless sea of blood.
Therefore, the British top brass had to restrain a little, shut down some radio stations that directly provided intelligence to the United States, and expelled some American intelligence personnel who were on the surface.
Of course, the United States can still get a lot of information that it is interested in, after all, the British government has already made up its mind at the moment of surrender to be a staunch wall-rider like France.
Since it is a wall-riding faction, it is naturally an inevitable choice to sell both sides. While the British top brass is secretly communicating with the United States, they are still eye-to-eye with the Germans.
"The Germans are training their navy, and their navy is not experienced in actual combat, and the scale is expanding rapidly, so the threat to us in the short term is still not too big." Nimitz opened his mouth to talk about the navy.
The German navy in the Atlantic, neither in quantity nor in quality, was sufficient to support the heavy task of attacking the United States, so the United States was relatively relieved about this.
"However, they have their own advantages in the number of warships and in the understanding and use of aviation." But this kind of reassurance also has a bottom line.
According to the information transmitted back from the Soviet Union, the other side is conducting actual combat training in the Black Sea region, and it is obvious that the quality of the soldiers is rapidly improving.
When this naval training takes shape, then the trouble for the Americans will come. Until now, the United States has not dared to fully transfer garrison ships from the east coast to the Pacific Ocean because it is afraid of the German navy.
If the French Navy and the Italian Navy really had their brains in the water and the Germans advancing and retreating together in an attempt to reach the United States, they would really be a more difficult opponent than Japan.
So the United States kept an eye on the combined fleet of the Axis powers, that is, the one that shelled Sevastopol.
This fleet does not frighten the United States in terms of combat power, and the United States fears that this model of cooperation will eventually evolve into a closer and larger state.
Once several Axis navies could work together, landing in the United States would not be impossible......
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