Quoting: southern
Do you know how many british divisions were in the West?The germans had 180 divisions in the east and 50 divisions in the west.Do you know how big was the soviet army and what ammunition it had?
So what has all that got to do with landing an Army on an Island with the biggest Navy in the world??
Quoting: southern
s there any battle that the british army won against the germans accept El Alamein,which had no strategic consequences since the americans had already landed in Algeria?
France 1940,Kreta 1941,Africa 1941,Tobruk 1942,Arnhem 1944,
Was there any battles that the Russians won against the Germans during this period of the war?....The Germans rounded up the Russians in huge pockets, millions at a time....We were all fighting the best Army in the world and had to learn from our mistakes in the same way the Russians had too....But I think we did that in the end....as your mention of El Alamein says....When the inexperienced American Army entered the war for the first time in the desert the Germans hammered them at the Kesserine Pass...Which led Rommel to nick name them....''Englands Italians''.
As for your disrespectful comments about British troops in Normandy....This was because the British and Canadian Army fought the hardcore of the German Army in France....i.e. all of the elite SS Panzer Divisions were stationed around Caen, many were veterans from Russia.....Most of the soldiers fighting on the American side were not even German!!....They were Poles, Russians, Baltic states etc.....but the fierce fighting around Caen did destroyed all of the German tanks....some 2000 in all,.....This enabled that all American hero General Patton to go galloping across France thanks to the Brits with no Germans in front of him....Just to quote the German Chief of staff in Normandy....General Blumentritt....Who was asked after the war about the quality of allied troops opposing him... he said ''As for the British it proved almost impossible to shift them....To counter attack the British always cost us heavy casualties.....As for the Americans they always attacked with zest.....but once they came under artillery fire they usually fell back to their start line!!....Not exactly ''Saving Private Ryan''.
As for Arnhem.... it was a big cock up....but again the Germans the Paratroops fought against....the 9th and 10 SS Panzer Divivsions had come from Russia....and after the Battle had ended they said we were the best troops they had ever fought against.
I could keep going on about General Alexander in Italy....Replacing American troops who had come under fierce resistance at the Gustav Line with British troops!!.....but I I think i've said enough for now....Britain was not the main player in the war, but we can take pride in the part we did play.....The attacks against us comes from envy.
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