re: #148 Targetpractice

Regarding TMITHC: we Americans love our guns, and that was true 80 years ago too. No way a few hundred thousand occupying troops could dominate North America. Neither Japan or Germany could have the manpower to occupy North America. Even if Germany has a working A-bomb in 1940, that would just have forced the US (and the rest of the world) into a truce, to allow Germany to hold their gains in Europe. And in the story Japan doesn’t have the A-bomb, and would have been totally dependent upon Germany (which the story alludes) which would have been a very un-Japanese thing to do.

As for SS-GB, it’s universe is a smaller scope and it’s really only centered on England proper being under German control, with the “north” wild (and presumably Ireland also). So in this sense SS-GB is not as far-fetched as TMITHC, yet I still find it problematic that the British Empire would not have fought even if England proper was occupied.