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The fact that the Germans had to replace Italian garrisons in the Balkans is a very good point that I had forgotten. And yes many German divisions...
Thank you for the replies people. I've thought about the landing craft and I think that if there were enough for the Sicilian landings then there...
I know this is a well known question but I wonder if an Allied invasion of Normandy in 1943 could have succeeded. The Allies put 150,000 men...
Oh. I got that wrong then.
What's the point of trolling on a military forum? And thank you USA for all the moral and material aid to Britain in 1940/41.
Agreed, it looks in perfect condition. The whole battlefield must have looked incredible straight after the battle. There would have been...
Thanks Blackwell. I've seen some of the pics but there were also some I'd never seen. A good find. I notice though that Panthers are always...
11 Panzer served for three and a half years unrelieved then. Veterans of that division must have been grey. Thanks for the info on 26 Panzer. I...
Yes I completely agree. All the mobile divisions in France over the summer of 42 were rebuilding just as they needed to be after Barbarossa and...
LAH went to the west after taking part in the first part of Operation Blue. Das Reich and Totenkop had already been removed from the east by then...
Bock's statement doesn't seem surprising. They'd gone from Brest to Smolensk and inflicted massive losses and the Soviets were still dumping fresh...
I believe unless the Soviet Union collapsed as Hitler believed they would then Barbarossa could never succeed. With hindsight everyone knows the...
Distance did defeat German mobility in the mud. The film of German columns in the mud shows their trucks, cars and motorbikes stuck completely...
I agree that the German plan was to liquidate the Red Army in vast frontier battles and thereafter wipe out it's reserves piecemeal as they...
I get that AGC would have had long flanks but remember the flanking Army Groups while not wiping out their opposition like AGC did through to...
If the Germans resumed the advance on Moscow in late August 1941 instead of supporting and reinforcing the flanking Army Groups at that time like...
The problem for Stalin was that while he could evacuate factories and the government he couldn't evacuate the road and rail network or the land...
The Panthers gun wasn't overated, it was a hard hitter. And the 17 pounder didn't have a far heavier shell, it weighed 17 pounds and the Panther...
Do you think he might have been a bit biased though? ;) Still, interesting that he rated the heavy tanks as most dangerous, probably because they...
