Comments by "bakters" (@bakters) on "WW2 American, British, Soviet and German Rifle Squad FIREPOWER Comparison" video.
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@steenkigerrider5340 "The Germans lost an army 3 times the size of Stalingrad in Tunisia"
That's total nonsense. You are living in a la-la land. The total loses in Tunisia amounted to 250-350 K, while during the rather narrowly defined Battle of Stalingrad the Axis have lost 650-870 K. That's after the late August, which is a period TIK is just entering in his Battlestorm documentary. I don't remember how many episodes of heavy, really heavy, fighting he already covered, while he obviously ignored all the other operations on the (so called) Eastern Front.
That's easily over a million of casualties in the whole campaign, only in the Northern sector of Fall Blau. So it's actually almost exactly the other way around. That is, the Germans at Stalingrad alone suffered losses three times the size of the Tunisia disaster.
"considerable amount of troops to cover their whole southern European flank."
Sure. Still, one out of five (that's 80%) of their troops fought on the Eastern Front. Coincidentally, that's the percentage of Soviet troops which fought there too. 80% vs 80%.
"The concentration of panzer equipment was nowhere greater than in Normandy."
Remember to shout it very loudly, while covering your ears at the same time. I'm not sure it will work, but no harm in trying... ;-)
"Let's agree to firmly disagree on this one. :)"
I'm not giving up yet. So far you seem like a reasonable person, who was simply misinformed during all those years of Cold War. I mean, we'll see. Maybe agreeing to disagree is the best we can do, but I'm not giving up yet.
"in the early 70's Visited Eastern Germany"
I visited there in late 70s. It looks like we narrowly missed each other, or so it seems almost half a century later. Time's flying.
BTW - roughly at the same time three of my friends (all kids, of course) decided to run away to America. I mean it. They lifted some change from their parents and tried to get to you guys. Everybody had a laugh.
Well, you used to be great, while we were shit. Not so obvious any more, is it?
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@steenkigerrider5340 "Only proves how gigantic superior the US"
Of course, what else? ;-D
"400.000 vehicles."
Below I quote a summary of a fairly detailed report:
"on 22.6.41 Red Army had around 270,000 trucks, and received another 745,000 during the war. Out of these, 150,000 were new domestic production, 221,500 trucks drafted from the industry and agriculture sectors, 60,600 captured enemy's trucks and 312,600 lend-lease trucks."
Above a million in total, from which LL trucks were about 30%. Not bad and definitely important, especially considering those were good trucks, but not critical.
What I like the most about those LL trucks, is that they were delivered in bulk. Enough to build a supply and maintenance chain around them, so they could actually deliver the goods, both literally and figuratively speaking.
That was not he case with regards to a lot of LL deliveries. Imperial, metric and even effing Whitworth! Not even talking about the lack of manuals, basic training and so on.
Did it all help? Sure. There's no denying that. But the raw numbers do not tell the whole story.
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