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![]() "robert arndt" wrote in message om... Well said. Three cheers for the guy with a brain! I'll give you another example comparison between US and German tech from 1945. Had the war gone on just until the fall of 1945 the German soldier would have had: a new M44 stalhelm, M44 Liebermuster camouflage (which contained carbon and IR defeating dyes), the STG-45 assault rifle, the Pzf 150 AT weapon, and Nipolit formed disc grenades. Reliant on horse drawn vehicles for resupply. The most shocking thing for most British soldiers when they closed the Falaise gap was to discover that most German army units were totally reliant on horse and cart to deliver supplies from the railhead. Every British Infantry division had been motorised since 1945 and they also realised that while the SS might be well supplied with weapons and material the average Wermacht soldier had to walk into battle on his own two legs, was armed with the 5 shot bolt action Karabiner 98k rifle of 1898 vintage and WW1 designed hand grenades. The Panzershreck was of course inspired by the Bazooka Had they managed to survive into 1945 without being Nuked the Germans would have been facing large numbers of M-26 and Centurion battle tanks which were superior to anything they had and fleets of the new US and British jet fighters. Germany was on the wrong side of the arms production curve from 1942 onwards. There was no other way to go than down. Keith |
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