Hi Waterways, have you been watching the Battle of the Atlantic on t.v.? It was a very close run thing during WW11 .According to historians it was only the entry of the U.S.A. that prevented Britain being subsumed. The Enigma machine on its own would not have been sufficient to beat the wolf packs that Doenitz was putting into battle. We did a marvellous job until 1942,but without America we would all be speaking German now.We never had the tools or the manpower to face the Axis alone.When I say we ,I include all the wonderful combatants from the Dominions and our colonies. Russia would have had a job on too if we had fallen and only God knows how things would have panned out then. Web were a fortunate country ,but we paid for that good fortune by giving up our empire..But that is a whole new thread.
BrianD