INVASION OF AMERICA
EASY FOR GERMANY IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN NEW YORK, Mav 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, TJnder-secretary of War, in '. a speech at the presentation of two posthumous Congressional Medals. He added that the United States, after the fall of France had only five fullstrength infantry divisions and fewer than 300 modern combat planes.
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Evening Star, Issue 25496, 29 May 1945, Page 5
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77INVASION OF AMERICA Evening Star, Issue 25496, 29 May 1945, Page 5
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