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Post by Sir John on May 9, 2018 9:33:10 GMT -5
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Post by Swampy on May 9, 2018 20:07:53 GMT -5
The two single biggest causes were the Red Army and American manufacturing.
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Post by hornet32 on May 9, 2018 20:29:25 GMT -5
Don't know where the Russian casualties came from since Stalin was noted for killing off a million or two of his own Country men from time to time .
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Post by obliqueweaponsfb on Sept 15, 2018 14:39:08 GMT -5
America did the most. Arming England and Russia.
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Post by Sir John on Sept 15, 2018 15:35:29 GMT -5
Many say that "WW2 was won in the factories and shipyards of America" and that is true as far as it goes, but Russia killed FAR more Germans than the other allies combined.
What America never seems to understand is that the war was almost 4 years old before GIs got their boots wet, and the USAAF actually went to Germany more than occasionaly. Even 'Memphis Belle' went to France on "milk runs" I think 21 times out of 25. And the RAF sent 1000 bombers at a time to Germany a year before the USAAF got into stride. Rommel and his DAK were a beaten army by the time the US landed in Africa
It was mid 1944 before HRH Douglas MacArthur had more US ground troops under his command than Australians.
Lend Lease was very important, but NOT critical.
SJ
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Post by Swampy on Sept 16, 2018 0:21:44 GMT -5
Many say that "WW2 was won in the factories and shipyards of America" and that is true as far as it goes, but Russia killed FAR more Germans than the other allies combined. What America never seems to understand is that the war was almost 4 years old before GIs got their boots wet, and the USAAF actually went to Germany more than occasionaly. Even 'Memphis Belle' went to France on "milk runs" I think 21 times out of 25. And the RAF sent 1000 bombers at a time to Germany a year before the USAAF got into stride. Rommel and his DAK were a beaten army by the time the US landed in Africa It was mid 1944 before HRH Douglas MacArthur had more US ground troops under his command than Australians. Lend Lease was very important, but NOT critical. SJ SJ, The war was TWO years before the GI's went into combat, as they did in North Africa in 1942. As for Lend Lease, Khruschev himself told his audience to ask how they could have gotten to Berlin without American trucks. In fact, the US supplied the USSR with ALL its aviation fuel, its uniforms, its concentrated orange juice, and many of its rail carriages. |
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Post by Sir John on Sept 16, 2018 0:35:51 GMT -5
Sept 1939 to Nov 1942 is THREE years, and as I said they took on a beaten DAK army then.
SJ
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Post by Swampy on Sept 16, 2018 1:45:04 GMT -5
I stand corrected. So we split it in the middle.
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