"Calif Bill" wrote in message nk.net...
Actually the Russian winter defeated the Nazi's. The German's extended the
supply lines to far and due to very precision manufacturing, the big guns
failed in the winter. Had a customer years ago, who spent WW2 on the
Russian front, German side. He stated one time when were talking about
Mercedes and fine German engineering, the engineering sucked at times. The
guns were accurate to inches in long range shooting, but an 88 was to blow
big holes not as a sniper weapon. When it got -30 degrees, the dissimilar
metals shrunk at different rates and the guns jammed. The Russian guns were
bored about 1/8" bigger, and could shoot German ammo, but the German guns
could not shoot the Soviet stuff. So the Russians blew the hell out of the
Germans with their own ammo. The Russian retreat at Stalingrad, was over a
lake that was melting fast. There are old movies of the trucks driving
across the lake ice, with at least a foot of water on top. The Russians
made it, but the Germans were forced to drive lots of miles to go around the
lake. Lacking supplies, because of the long supply lines.
Bill

I'd suggest looking at the battle of Krusk. It wasn't the winter that
defeated the Germans.

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"DSK" wrote in message
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Ashland Henderson wrote:
Pretty funny, actually. We helped, no question about it but the real
heavy
lifting was done by our old enemies, the USSR. I'd suggest reading
some
real histories of WWII.


thunder wrote:
And with 20 million dead, the heavy dying.

You might want to take a second look at the numbers. Undoubtedly the
USSR
played
a huge role in WW2, or as they call it, The Great Patriotic War, but the
oft
quoted figures of ~20 million casualties (I've seen it put at 23+M)
include a
heck of a lot of civilians that were deliberately starved or worked to
death by
Papa Joe Stalin.

Regards
Doug King

Exactly. One cannot diminish the contributions of the USSR but those
casualty numbers are inflated. Joe Stalin may even eclipse Hitler as
Europe's biggest mass murderer.

Our critical contribution was typical American cowboyism. While the
English
were bombing at night at to save losses, they also weren't hitting much.
We
got over there with our B17's and B24's and commenced daylight precision
raids on Hitlers infrastructure, despite him having the best air defence
system known to man. Our boys signed up for 25 missions when the average
survival expectency was 15 missions. If you're in Memphis stop off and
visit
the Belle, she sits peacefully by the water now, forever on her 26th
mission - to make sure we never forget. If Col. Bob Morgan is ever
speaking
near you, go see him - and look in the eyes of a real hero.

-W