Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "All Or Nothing: The Enormous Risk Of The D-Day Landings | Battlezone | War Stories" video.

@johnlenin830 There was rather more to WW2 than simply ground fighting on the Eastern Front. Would you care to provide details of the Soviet contribution to the war against Japan, the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval conflict in the Arctic, the war in the Mediterranean, or the air war over Germany?
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@nickdanger3802 I wonder if the opinion of a sergeant, however heroic he may have been, is really entirely relevant?
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@nickdanger3802 Are you referring to the night transfer of 3rd Division in late May, 1940, when Montgomery moved his division into the gap left in the allied line following the surrender of Belgium, and prevented the collapse of the front?
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@nobodyknows3180 You don't perhaps consider that tying down eight Panzer Divisions and three Independent Tiger Battalions around Caen might have facilitated the eventual American break out then? Caen was merely real estate. The capture was intended to make it unavailable to the Germans as a route centre. The same purpose was achieved by drawing almost all the German armour into a battle of attrition.
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You don't consider that Eisenhower deciding to go ahead, based on the 'weather window' which Group Captain Stagg, the Meteorologist attached to SHAEF, thought he had identified, might have been something of a gamble?
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@johnlenin830 'I've given historical facts, what doesn't suit you?' No, you haven't. You have made a series of claims, many of which were inaccurate.
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@johnlenin830 It appears that many of your earlier posts are no longer on the thread. Either they have vanished, as does sometimes happen, or they have been deleted, which I am not alleging. As I recall from my deleted posts: 1). 'The United States declared war on Germany on december 11, 1941, but the second front in Europe was opened only in the summer of 1944.' Define 'Second Front.' A quarter of a million axis troops surrendered to the Western Allies in Tunisia, where the US had being fighting since November, 1942. Subsequently, the Western Allies fought a long campaign in Italy from early July, 1943. The US Army Air Force had been in action against German forces from July, 1942, and the Navy before that. 2). 'The USSR did not "supply" Germany, but received from it what was necessary for the future war.' Untrue. You obviously hadn't heard of the 1940 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement. 3). 'The United States declared war on Germany on December 11, 1941.' Misleading, in that you failed to point out that this was a response, not a choice. The US neither expected the German declaration, nor was prepared for it. Your incomplete statement, at the very least, implies that the US had been preparing such an act for some time, when this was manifestly not the case.
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@abba-Flammenfresser Which of my posts are you replying to?
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Until mid June, 1941, Lyudmila and her comrades had been hiding behind the backs of the British. Indeed, they had been supplying the eventual fascist invaders with raw materials. The United States, whilst neutral, had at least been supporting the British with aid, not actively supplying their enemy.
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@johnlenin830 Actually, the Germans declared war on the US, not vice versa. The United States had been supporting and supplying the enemies of fascism at a time when the USSR was actively supplying the fascists. Furthermore, the first US ground troops saw action in Tunisia from November, 1942, alongside British & Commonwealth troops. Immediately thereafter, they saw action again in Europe, from July, 1943. At the same time, the Western allies were producing and delivering large quantities of military aid to the Soviet Union. Over to you. Please provide details of the support the Soviets gave to US & Australian forces in the Pacific, or to British and Commonwealth forces in Burma. It shouldn't take you long!
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@johnlenin830 Indeed, the US responded to the German declaration of war, which doesn't alter the fact that Germany declared war first. The United States Army Air Force began offensive operations against Germany in July, 1942, and their involvement in the Battle of the Atlantic actually predated the German declaration of war. There was, realistically, nowhere in Europe where their ground troops could be committed, because, as you are probably aware, Germany, with the benefit of raw materials and food supplies provided by their Soviet comrades, had already conquered France. Indeed, the USSR was not at war with Japan, but the US & Britain were. You still seem to view WW2 in terms of ground fighting on the eastern front. Don't you perhaps grasp that there was rather more involved than that, or will you seemingly ingrained prejudice not permit the broader view? 'The very existence of the USSR was threatened.' Just as that of Britain had been in 1940, when the Germans were receiving large quantities of supplies from their new Soviet best friends.
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@jasonbell6234 Sorry, mon brave, but they did, from 17 September, 1939, when they invaded the territory beyond the 'Curzon Line,' the Soviet "sphere of influence" according to the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
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