It was a job he had and as was common in Nazi Germany, titles meant nothing, authority was dependent on Hitlers whim at the moment
THe idea that Berlin could be reached earlier is nonsense. Germany had too many reserves left and the supply difficulties would make France seem...
Heisenberg made a crucial error and thought the method the allies used was not possible. The one chance the Germans had was ended when the train...
Norwinds, as has been debated, lost is a relative turn. are we talking completely destroyed or damaged and out of service for repair. Plus a unit...
Side note. Neither Rabaul nor Truk had been built up to be effective bases. At the start of the war, Truk actually had an oiler in port to take...
Antwerp would have allowed supplies to arrive closer to the front. What hurt the supply effort was the need to ship supplies so far. The allies...
re the BB's, Yamato did not expect the air battle to happen so early. Based on his plan the back up force would arrived around the time the US...
I wonder if the lack of coordination between the army and navy prevented a combined attack that would have done the trick. Japan never grasp the...
Combat casualties dropped because there was less fighting on most fronts, especially in the south.
One thing completely ignored is that cold of weather requires a vast increase of caloric intake. A normal day in good weather requires about 3 to...
The treaty actually led Japan to the rule by assassination period. The nationalist felt sold out by the treaty, not understanding that America...
Stalin wanted to attack at Kursk in 43 and decided to wait. Rokossovsky wanted to launch two attacks on his front in 1944, Stalin wanted one and...
educated is misleading, the average peasant was not allowed to think. I don't see how the Soviet system would have survived bloody Omaha because...
AGC survived the winter offense because Stalin ordered a general offense on all fronts, instead of concentrating on one. The objectives were also...
One overlooked factor is the cold tended to hit the front line troops hardest, and thus the numbers are important because of all the other losses...
Marshall absolutely refused to consider any eastern med operations proposed by Churchill instead of France. He knew that once you took one island...
My guess is that the Navy believed leaving the gas in the pipes lead to the venting of fumes and the explosion.
The US was very conscious of learning from battles
The control of artillery would depend on what kind of fight and what phase. At the start of an offence most artillery would have a preset plan as...
The normal procedure was for a group to be lead by a experienced pilot since trainees barely knew how to handle their planes. If the leader was...
