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Originally Posted by Roddoss72
Getting back to the thread without any bitchy comments, i have records indicating that at the time of the surrender of the Germans they still had 8 million troops on the field, and even though the Luftwaffe was a shadow of it's former self it was however still deadly.
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Hmm, certainly you should rephrase it to "...it was however still
dead". The last nail in the Luftwaffe's coffin had been Hitler's decision to enact Op. Bodenplatte, the massacre of the fighter force Galland had ammassed in a large and useless raid against the allied airfields at the time of the Battle of the bulge. After that, "kein mehr Luftwaffe".
As for the 8 million, probably, but it were 8 millions completely exhausted, torn to shreds (I used the word knackered elsewhere), made up of too young or too old conscripts, those who up too know had been kept from military service in industry, etc. The manpower sources were exhausted, after the war it took several years for the Bundesheer to be able to recruit from age classes that been untouched by the war.
Also there were the Luftwaffe and Navy ground troops. This was ridiculous. Instead of picking up their unused or left over personnel and handing them to the army for retraining and use as recompletments, no sir, they gave the erks a rifle and panzerfaust and off to the Oder you go. What a waste!
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Originally Posted by Roddoss72
Japan still had something like 95 divisions serving overseas and a further 100+ division on home soil, if we were to include say Nationalist China, America, Commonwealth, Japanese forces then that would equate to something like 300+ division and not forgetting the combined airpower.
If all that was released on the Soviets fighting a two front war it would not survive.
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95 divisions spread from the tip of Hokkaido to the Burma jungles? From Sinkiang to a nameless remote island in the Pacific? The same starving army whose untouched cream had just been butchered in Manchuria and Korea by the Soviet Operation August Storm? Whose home base had been firebombed into the stoneage?
Come off it, leave the poor Soviet Union alone, they had problems enough with sorting out their reconstruction. The Allies (USA, United Kingdom, all the Nations in the Commonwealth, France, Soviet Union, Italy, Brasil, etc.) all fought the
same war to defeat the Axis and went on to form the United Nations. That's the truth of it. All the rest we see here is a couple of guys with a thorn stuck in their ass. Get over it, buy a German Shepherd and call it Blondi if you like.
