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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (36989)	8/11/2002 3:05:51 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (3) of 281500

Ok we have had this silly "who won ww2" discussions before. It's not who fields the most people and arms but who kills the enemy. A point in question. Look at this site carefully. Even the toughtest German regiments could not believe how tough the Russian fighters were. They fought in primative conditions where most would have just chucked it in. skalman.nu and this page skalman.nu OK, I aplogise up front if this seems to "denigrate the USA". That is/was not my intention. Its just a discussion on the bare facts. It was a bloody awful war, and invasion of Russia would have bought unimaginable extra suffering. That could easily happen again unless the general population realizes how bad it could be. Message 17499482 Now tell me the USA could go up against Russia at the end of WW2 without nuclear weapons. Stalin would have fought to the last Russian tank and the inferiority of the Sherman tank was 10:1 (see prev link). Without any disrespect to the brave heros who stormed up the Normandy beaches re "Saving Private Ryan" film, it was just another day in a terrible brutal war. Most days were like that somewhere every day of the war, and on a much larger scale. USA jets lined up on runways in 1943? What date did the USA fly to Schweinfurt ? Ah yes 17 April 1943 euronet.nl Operation 'Double Strike': First U.S. daylight air raid, with 229 B17's (36 shot down), on Schweinfurt (and Regensburg) in Germany, 320 km; the Americans attempting a daylight raid without fighter escort. Schweinfurt was the location of huge ball-bearing factories that supplied most of the ball-bearings for the entire German military. The second raid on 14 Octobre, 291 B17's now with 60 loses. That would be a contentious political point at the time, no wonder I never heard of that fact. Here is a small selection of earlier WW2 posts with linked conversations. I have included one Russian joke in the series, but you have to find it -g- Message 17545895 Message 17546203 Message 17550203 Message 17072756 siliconinvestor.com Message 16526533 Message 16477383 Message 16547583 Message 16560341 Message 16564792 U boats? How well did the USA torpedoes work for the larger part of the war? geocities.com I agree the USA successfully developed the acoustic homing torpedo that put the finishing touches to the Battle of the Atlantic. history.acusd.edu

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