We need to define Artillery. To me this excludes anti-tank and AA weapons and just deals with direct fire. And I'd stick with the 25pdr:...
DasReich Very little of the WDF's supplies went past Gibraltar. Fuel came directly from the Middle East and stuff from the UK usually went round...
Friedrich How will this superior Wehrmacht be kept supplied? Sea control of the Channel is vital, and there is no way on god's earth that Germany...
Friedrich I don't know what you mean by the phrase "staff officer". If it means an officer who had an inkling about supply and logistics or tried...
Andreas Morgenthau's plan fell apart by late 1944, at the hands of Secretary of War Stimson. It had been agreed as policy at the Quebec...
The Reichswehr was a significant player: see Kapp Putsch or Hitlers seduction of them in the 30's. However they diod not have this massive surfeit...
Postwar treatment of Germany was originally intended to be quite harsh. The US Army document JCS1067 outlines how occupying forces should deal...
I think that if it began to recover economically and with a President who was not slipping into senility, Weimar could have stumbled on. The...
I'm glad someone mentioned Socialism in One Country because this was the policy Stalin clung to throughout the 20's and 30's. It has often been...
So in contrast Patton was rash, egotistical and not a good officer boosted by propaganda! Montgomery clearly was not inspirational;, was a poor...
I would feel very sorry for Brazil. For a start there would have been plenty of scope for the allies to stir up internal dissent in South America:...
dasreich You cannot win a war just with airpower! I think that it would have been impossible that the Luftwaffe, with its emphasis on tactical...
Yes it was more-or-less inevitable becuase of the problem of Germany. Trying to accomodate Germany into the traditional European structure had...
It has to be the USA 1) The only country where living standards continued to rise during the war. 2) Made significant profits selling arms to...
I have got to find my nearest Pill Box. Perhaps we could suggest an adopt-a-box programme? LOL
Ron In Germany the USAF bombed as accurately as possible against industrial targets and quite deliberately shied from any form of area bombing....
I seem to remember German WW1 comments that in 1914 they thought they were under machine gun fire because of the rate of fire the BEF threw out...
I was browsing around and I found this site. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/dob/index.cfm Is there anything similar in any other...
The worst I did was -28 in Norway. It wasn't as bad as I expected because there was little humidity. I certainly felt far better off than I would...
Steve What was the difference? Why was the USAAF prepared to undertake carpet bombing of Japan but not of Germany? Saying that they wew...
