In the last 15 years under manager Alex Ferguson, the modern United have won the European Cup, three League and FA Cup doubles and far surpassed what Busby's ill-fated Babes achieved.
But the question that never goes away, and can never be answered is... would the Babes have done the same? Or even more?
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Charlton, who survived the crash to become England's most famous footballer, was the flower that bloomed from that tragedy.
Charlton believes they would have prevented Real Madrid winning the first five European Cups and become the first English team in the 20th century to have won the FA Cup and League double, rather than Tottenham Hotspur in 1961.
He believes England, with Edwards, Byrne and Taylor, might have won the World Cup in Sweden in 1958 rather than Brazil.
"I do believe we would have won the European Cup in 1958," he said as the anniversary approached.
"We had learnt so much from our previous European experience. I think we would have become the best team in Europe for years, and certainly the best in England. And who knows what England could have done in the Sweden World Cup? Could we have won it? Very possibly."
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