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Post by Sir John on May 10, 2018 0:18:41 GMT -5
...Hitler begins his tour of Western Europe. PM Chamberlin resigns and Winston Churchill takes the reins.
Almost 5 years to the day on and Germany and Hitler are dead.
Burn in hell.
SJ
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Post by hornet32 on May 10, 2018 17:31:57 GMT -5
We fought the Germans and the Germans fought everybody and did a fair job of it ..
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Post by Sir John on May 10, 2018 17:48:46 GMT -5
Things started going wrong for Germany when Rommel tried to take Tobruk!
Then tried to get past the 9th at el Alamein. Later he had a bright spot at Kasserine Pass when he gave the Yanks a lesson. By the time the Yanks got organised the DAK was a beaten Army.
"The end of the beginning".
RAH RAH
SJ
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Post by hornet32 on May 11, 2018 9:02:36 GMT -5
The Kasserine Pass was an accident that wasn't meant to happen the Germans didn't want a conflict there they barely had the resources to make it to the coast .. the Americans did well enough . at least they weren't standing in water up to their ass waiting to be rescued at Dunkirk ..
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Post by Sir John on May 11, 2018 12:41:01 GMT -5
Yep, and thank god the USN arrived to save them.
The Marines! I nearly forgot the Marines!
....and HRH General MacArthur VC, of course!
SJ
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Post by Swampy on May 11, 2018 12:56:36 GMT -5
The African campaign was a complete waste of time for the Germans - they should have thrown everything into the Eastern front, to contain the Soviets. That may just have stalled the Red Army long enough for a separate peace - it's a long shot, but better than scattering their forces for nothing.
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Post by Sir John on May 11, 2018 13:40:10 GMT -5
Maybe, but although things were going well up to Easter 1941, they struck a snag with a far too long supply line forever theatened by the 'loss' of Tobruk harbour.
If he had taken that he would have had nothing to stop him getting to Suez and the middle eastern oilfields. Maybe even linking up with his comrades near Iraq? and Iran on the shores of the Black Sea.
But the 9th Div together with the 18th Brigade, and some really good British artillery, stopped all that from happening!
....and all that happened BEFORE Hitler invaded Russia.
SJ
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Post by Swampy on May 11, 2018 19:10:37 GMT -5
If he had taken that he would have had nothing to stop him getting to Suez and the middle eastern oilfields. Maybe even linking up with his comrades near Iraq? and Iran on the shores of the Black Sea. Long lines of communication will prevent that, not to mention flanking attacks by the Allies along the way. |
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Post by hornet32 on May 11, 2018 22:09:51 GMT -5
The Empire supplied Rommel with a large amount of supplies many of the trucks he used were captured from the Brits though he wouldn't use their tanks which he considered useless when Monty finally made his great move Rommel had less than a 100 tanks but Rommel did have lots of 8.8 mm cannons which put a big dent in Monty's armor corps the rule of thumb for every 6 rounds an 8.8 fired 5 tanks went boom ..
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