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Old April 21st 05, 03:31 AM
Montblack
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("Richard Riley" wrote)
2) The Japanese were NOT very good at improvising. One of the
problems of a strict hierarchical society. They were better than the
Germans, but nowhere near as good as the Nebraska farm boys.



Odd, I would have given the mechanical tinkering edge to the German soldier
over a Japanese soldier. Maybe because German society had been
industrialized, on a number of levels, longer than Japan.


Montblack