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"Thom Stewart" wrote You Yank-baiter can't seem to find peace that the ALLIES weren't a winning team until the Yanks were included. That is why I've been asking for one of the baiters from this list to find a Battle before 12/7/1941. The USSR had successfully defended Moscow, with Hitler ending the German effort to take Moscow on 12-5-41. A major counterattack (along the entire 500 mile front) takes place on Dec. 6, throwing the Germans back, away from Moscow. Moscow is never threatened again. British forces accepted the surrender of all Italian forces in east Africa on 11-28-41, securing that end of the Med (and the Suez Canal) for the rest of the war. (They'd taken Syria and Lebanon earlier in the year.) The Bismarck, of course, was sunk earlier, in May. That was certainly a pretty big victory, at least in terms of morale and ending the threat to the convoy routes from surface warships. But I'd say stopping the Germans in the suburbs of Moscow - to the point Hitler decided to abandon the effort -- was a pretty major victory. Stopping any threat to the Suez Canal and allied forces in Egypt from the flanks was pretty big too in the overall scheme of things. |
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