Comments by "bakters" (@bakters) on "Christmas at Stalingrad | Battlestorm Stalingrad E46" video.
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A counterargument: What about the archives?
Do they say that they do what is asked of them and even have some capability left? If not, I don't believe you. People almost always are willing to overstate their own achievement and claim they did well, even if they didn't.
Your hypothesis requires me to believe that people on the ground were willing to take the blame for someone's else failure, and keep their mouths shot. While I could believe that, I'd need more evidence than some rather shaky happenstances.
I mean, screwups happen and sending the wrong packets is almost expected. Also, there is nothing particularly mysterious about having more planes at some day than another. They just fixed them, how about that?
So if the say, they can't fly because their engines are frozen solid, maybe, just maybe, they were simply frozen solid?
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