It's interesting to imagine how different WWII would have been if the Atlantic had as many island chains as, say, the Pacific. Just think of island-hopping warfare in that type of environment :hmm: . I think it would have benefited the allies for the most part; convoys could have had continuous air cover without needing escort carriers from 1939 onwards; plus, it was the allies and not the Germans who had sufficient cargo ships and invasion barges to conduct that kind of fighting.
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