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There really weren't many Sovs left around to do much fighting.
Your fifty divisions of t-34s would not have been able to speak to each other, if they even existed. First, the US had better arttilary, and then there is the USAAF which would have destroyed the Soviet airforce and attacked the Soviet lines of communication far deeper then the Germans could. From bases in Germany, the US could reach the Urals, from UK, pass Moscow to the Donbas using B-29s.
Why Hitler bothered to attack INTO a fortified area like Kursk I'll never know; the US could simply go around and bag the whole lot. BTW look what happened in December of 44 when the Germans attacked at The battle of the Bulge. US didn't have air power, and by your account had lousy tanks and we were out numbered. Germans had the weather, coldest winter in a long long time. Germans lost.
Quoting Zhukov:"Speaking about our readiness for war from the point of view of the economy and economics, one cannot be silent about such a factor as the subsequent help from the Allies. First of all, certainly, from the American side, because in that respect the English helped us minimally. In an analysis of all facets of the war, one must not leave this out of one's reckoning. We would have been in a serious condition without American gunpowder, and could not have turned out the quantity of ammunition which we needed. Without American `Studebekkers' [sic],we could have dragged our artillery nowhere. Yes, in general, to a considerable degree they provided our front transport. The output of special steel, necessary for the most diverse necessities of war, were also connected to a series of American deliveries."Moreover, Zhukov underscored that `we entered war while still continuing to be a backward country in an industrial sense in comparison with Germany. Simonov's truthful recounting of these meetings with Zhukov, which took place in 1965 and1966, are corraborated by the utterances of G. Zhukov, recorded as a result of eavesdropping by security organs in 1963:"It is now said that the Allies never helped us . . . However, one cannot deny that the Americans gave us so much material, without which we could not have formed our reserves and ***could not have continued the war*** . . . we had no explosives and powder. There was none to equip rifle bullets. The Americans actually came to our assistance with powder and explosives. And how much sheetsteel did they give us. We really could not have quickly put right ourproduction of tanks if the Americans had not helped with steel. And today it seems as though we had all this ourselves in abundance."
These are the percentages of the total available to the Soviet military and industry that were supplied by America:80% of all canned meat.92% of all railroad locomotives, rolling stock and rails.57% of all aviation fuel.53% of all explosives.74% of all truck transport.88% of all RADIO EQUIPMENT.53% of all copper.56% of all aluminum.60+% of all automotive fuel.74% of all vehicle tires.12% of all armored vehicles.14% of all combat aircraft.The list includes a high percentage of the high grade steel, communicationscable, canned foods of all types, medical supplies, and virtually every modern machine tool used by Soviet industry. Not to mention the "know-how required to use and maintain this equipment.
I know, I know, this is just a "Brash American" speaking... :-) Hats off to the Brits and Russians for hanging on til we got there, but once we did, it was all over but the killing. BY the way, did you know strategic bombing was the second front?? |
