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Neil- You should write a novel based on your scenario. I was typing while you were posting, but your scenarios are very plausible and the outcomes, to say the least, are very interesting. I had not heard of the possibility the flu epidemic originated in the US. Last I had heard, nobody knew where it originated. I forget where the term "Spanish Lady" originated, but it was commonly used in the 1918/1919 timeframe.
Conscription in Australia and in the US in 1918/1919 would have just about drowned the Germans in manpower. Tank and aircraft technology and maneuver warfare were rapidly advancing and American production of aircraft would have finally come on line, giving the Entente forces even more overwhelming numerical superiority. The naval blockade was still working, gasoline was in extremelyshort supply and the Germans were fed up with war. So most likely the war would have ended in 1919 regardless of whether we entered the war after 1917.
Taz
Terry Phillips
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