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Re: Overlord: Same resourse
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Originally Posted by tomcat
Hey
I have often thought that what if the germans during operation overlord had the same military resourses as the allies?
You read stories of the crack german troops from the russian front tearing apart allied formation such as omaha beach (that was only remanents ote 352nd not the whole divsion). Or the reports of the germans expertly deploying there pak 43 AT guns in the headgerows of france. I read of 2 pak 43's destorying 43 tanks of a polish armoured divions equipped with shermans. Not to mention Germans crack Tiger commander Mike Wittman and his expert gunner Bobby (cant remember his last name) Destorying well over 100 tanks and assorted armoured vehicles with his tiger before being killed at normandy.
We have to remember that the germans at this time had virtually no airforce, there navy relied on battle cruisers, pocket battleships and there famous uboats. while the allies having over 5000 thousnads naval units both of the military type and conscripted civillian crafts, plus the hugh combined airforces of all the allied armies such as (England, America, polish, french) (plus anzac, polish, yugoslavian, french, norwegian, belgium, dutch, danish airmen, soldiers and sailors. that list does go on.) well all that verse the single power of germany, plus smaller austria, romania, bulgaria, and some ostruppen troops forced into action form the east nations.
if both sides had the same military power, with the germans having some of the best equiment ever seen at that time, plus some of the best military minds from prussia and germany. the germans could have taken the world.
any thoughts?
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Germany did have the best military in WWII, however as strong as they were they couldn't prevail because you can't win a two-front war. If most of their forces were at Normandy/D-Day they could have stopped the Allied invasion, but they were spread across continents, Africa, Russia ect... Basically the war was over when the bitter cold hit the Wehrmacht in Russia, after that there was no stopping the Asian hordes but they came sooo close to taking Russia. Like I've always said it was a bad move for going into Russia, I understand why he did it, he was running out of oilfields but Hitler should have understood the threat of the USA and that would lead into two-fronts. If England had been annexed or capitulated then that would have been different.
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