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Originally Posted by acker
The Axis, on the other hand, ran out of tungsten in...1944? 1943?
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The Axis started having difficulties from 1943 onwards when the Spanish and Portuguese tungsten ore - which till then was divided equally between both camps - suddenly became the object of "an offer you can't refuse"...
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