Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
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The German rocket program came from the U.S., Goddard's R&D, and the Brits developed jet engines in the mid-1930's, found them too expensive to produce. We had all the time in the world, Germany didn't. So what if they got another year''s worth of getting the crap bombed out of them??? They would have been worse off as a result of extending the war, and in fact would have merely handed over much more of Germany to the Soviets. Having jets would have done exactly squat to stop the land war.
Due to some pretty serious spying, German absconded with the Centrifugal version of the jet engine from Whittle. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, there was work done on the new TurboSupercharger for the P-38. It wasn't that big a leap to extend it to the L-1000 engine in 1937. Again, through creative Engineering though spying, German walked off with that as well as quite few other little secret tidbit. The War Department wasn't interest in the L-1000 engine so it was never really funded.