PERIL OF AMERICA.
IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN. WASHINGTON", May 27. ! “If Britain had fallen in 1940, Germany could have invaded the United States with 20 divisions and driven across the country,” said Mr Robert Patterson, Under-Secretary for War, in a speech during the presentation of two posthumous Congressional medals. 1-Ie added that the United States, after the fall of France, had only five full-strength infantry divisions and less than 300 modern combat planes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 193, 29 May 1945, Page 3
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