Not only were there the slightly less than 100,000 Frenchmen evacuated from Dunkirk, there were also the French that had been removed from Norway....
Why southern France instead of northern? Where is your air support based? The Axis would have it all over the Allies then. Better to go through...
Excuses! Churchill constantly fought with de Gaulle, and Roosevelt hated him. They wanted someone else in charge of the French effort, even a...
Do some research! There were many more Allied Divisions tied up in the Italian campaign than there were German. For Germany, Italy was the most...
Of course, it might have been a little more than 7,000 if the British hadn't actively hindered de Gaulle's efforts at recruiting the French forces...
I don't think so! Once the Medium Tank M4A1 was properly in production by - I believe - September 1942, the Medium Tank M3 production was...
I'm just saying that everyone in the west knew that Operation Zitadelle was coming. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the western Allies were some of...
Remembering that the western Allies had Enigma, and that the Soviets knew that the big Kursk offensive was coming, it strikes me that the invasion...
I will disagree with the landing craft issue. The western Allies in Europe actually had more landing craft available in 1943 than in 1944....
I came across an interesting statistic just the other day. The Judge Advocate General's office of the US Army had to investigate an average of 500...
Hi: I did a search in this forum and came up with nothing on this topic. (But then again I don't seem to have a knack for search phrasing.) I...
