Originally Posted by von_noobie

strelkovaya, you kidding right?, The only way the got supplies were via the Tobruk ferry, Made up of Australian vessels, For a navy that was so big and powerful they sure had to rely on alot of other countries smaller fleets to do the difficult dangerous tasks.

And Rommel attacked with over whelming numbers on several occasions, And he did it tctically, You dont just do a full scale charge, You will lose all your tanks, and atleast 25,000 men in an hour, You forget they had mine fields, ditches, adn tank traps to navigate. Not to mention they also had to deal with the highly effective aussie raiding partys behind there lines, Who not only too out enemy troops or captured them, They also went and dug up german mines, and moved them to suit there defense.

Oh and one big push, Requires time to build up supplies, And equiptment, and troops, And we all know how Kursk turned out when hitler waited, Do you really think it would have been any different at Tobruk.

If im not mistaken wasnt it Rommel who once said that the Australians are the elite of the British commonwealth, They seemed to be the only ones that didnt shit them selves and run at the first sign of a panzer.

Oh and britian could have done a hell of a lot more for Australia in WWII, granted infintry they couldnt spare, But they gave us only 1 fighter squadren, They easily could have given us 5, They had already secured the skies over britian and they werent operating 1,000s of planes in NA.

Navy wise, They didnt do shit with there navy, Would have been better off transfering alot more than like 6 ships to help us out, There carriers, Pretty much useless, Atleast they could have provided some help over here, The battle ships, Well besides Bismarck i dont remember to many ship to ship battles early on, Same goes for the Cruisers, Destroyers etc.

They easily could have given us a division of troops, They didnt have all there forces in NA, hell they didnt even give us a battalion of troops. This was the second world war they stuffed us around in, In ww1 at Gallipoli, They gave us a few hand drawn sketches of the landing beaches, No details on the terrain or anything.

Oh as for the mighy powerful british carrier fleet near the end of the pacific war, That just caused more problems than good, To sya they did so good against the kamikazis is utter BS, The yanks had been the ones to spill there blood to find out how to deal with them, Not to mention, The powerful carrier fleet the brits had, just drained more resources. The yanks by this time had over 100 carriers of different types and sizes. It was just plublicity for the brits.