[Bill Walker]

We may think the BoB was a "slam dunk" today, but British leaders at the time had to consider the possibility of Germany prevailing in the air and then launching an invasion. American money and goods were needed for more than Fighter Command - you needed convoy escorts in order to feed Britain and to re-equip the British Army brought back from the continent, and there was a war in the Middle East to consider, plus probably other concerns. Read any of Churchill's correspondence to Roosevelt during this time, and you will see he was much more worried about convoys than he was about the Luftwaffe.

I think one of your statements may be a gross over-simplification: "With the money saved, Britain would have had enough time to make itself secure in North Africa and Singapore." How much would have been saved? How much was needed to secure North Africa and Singapore? How much of the saved money would be spent in the US to secure North Africa and Singapore? Do we have numbers?