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That's what I meant, that the MTO was another Allied fight against Germany, so the US had appx. 2.5 million troops engaged against Germany based...
I know the German Armies in Normandy in the West were made up of good units mixed with older/foreign/unfit troops for the summer of 1944. The 7th...
Were the Air Forces, such as the 8th and 9th, considered their own armies, and what was the men and composition that made an Army Air Force such...
The 1st, 3rd, 7th, and 9th US armies we in the ETO simultaneously, so that is approximately 2 million US troops on one front, and another army in...
The US armies such as the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, etc. How many men and units determined what made the army, and was there a standard size of men and...
Not being a wise-ass, just a guitar player.
I think "The French Resistance" would be a cool band name.
I didn't think of it from that POV, but definitely from the more men/ more materiel/ more engagements with Germany POV.
I've read peak Soviet Armed Forces active strength was 12.8 million on one front. USA total armed forces peak (Army, Army AF, Navy, Marines) 12.2...
I'm on my lunch break, I don't have much time. I will directly quote a few of his theses. All I was doing was posting in a forum about "what you...
In that article it states that Germany had more, but I've read that Britain had stockpiles of all sorts of gases and chemicals that would have...
I also just picked up "1941" by Andrew Nagorski. That's the next read.
It is still an interesting read with some valid points, regardless if its written by an MBA with a bachelor's in history and economics.
Yes, that is what I meant. I can reference the portion of the book for the context. It comes from a Churchill quote and directive and an...
He lays out all of the different explanations given in classic WWII works and goes into why those explanations weren't all that feasible anyways...
I recommend checking the book out as it comes from a strategic point of view from the German side. I would have to type paragraph upon paragraph...
This is a recently released book. It's premise lays out that Hitler's Invasion of Russia was a calculated gamble with the odds in his favor, not...
I just bought a recently released book, "Hitler's Great Gamble" by James Ellman. I'm currently in the Sea Lion scenarios portion of the book, and...
There are a few documentaries about him specifically on "American Heroes Channel."
