And here I was thinking it was the practical application of a rather new technology, Radar, that warned the RAF fighters suddenly long before the German planes crossed the channel to do their attacking.
What RAF fighters? Without the lend-lease destroyers U-boats would have won the war in the Atlantic at the beginning of the war. England depended on the US for food, aluminum, rubber, high octane and everything else that barely allowed England to resist Hitler. Absent the means to counter the U-boats England's inability to feed it's population by itself turns into a starving population unable to build & fly the planes that won the BoB.
And it is also a lot easier to planes
It's always easier with imaginary planes England wouldn't have been able to build without US support.
I also understood that Nazi Germany knew very well how to turn coal into the type of fuel they needed for their machinery.
Germany would not have had to resort to coal liquefaction. Absent US support, no bomber raids on Ploesti, also no support for the Russians so Hitler makes it to Baku.
To come back to the point, Manning and Assange are most certainly the "lesser" variants of journalists and sources.
Claiming to be a journalists or a source does not give anyone a blanket license to commit crimes as you seem to think. Both the US & England have court systems that are used to make those who break laws face justice.
I would certainly think that even if Assange was walked to the US courts under bodyguard supervision, he would die from a car having a hiccup, which miraculously missed all of his bodyguards.
Key words: "you think". Assange supporters like you have been consistently dreaming up nightmare scenarios and claiming that they are the reality as if you were Trump or Putin.
There is unfortunately a lot of spite going on at the other side of the pond, I'm afraid. Result == the same a s a death penalty, except with a lot less bad press.
A criminal facing justice != spite or hate and your imagination is a piss poor substitute for reality.