Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "U.S. Army War College" channel.

  1. Jos van Doorn Again...."The Soviet Union had no plans to attack Europe"!!!  That is easy to understand.
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  2. ***** Why don't you learn some history?  It is easier that way. Ukrainian People's Republic was with Poland and against the Soviets. There were Red and White armies fighting over who will control Russia. After the USSR was cemented there was no fighting between the USSR and and Poland. 
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  3. Nathan Robinson You need to read some history.
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  4. nfd1960 US industry DID expand greatly. Now stop being silly.
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  5. Crazy Gaming King! Right after the retreat over water at Dunkirk because the massive French army capitulated, up until early 1941, the British had: * destroyed the German surface fleet * destroyed most of the French fleet * disabled a major part of the Italian fleet. * Beat the Luftwaffe over Dunkirk * Beat the Luftwaffe in the misnomer the Battle of Britain as Britain was never threatened. * Pushed the Italians out of East Africa * Decimated the Italian army in North Africa * Were about to take all the southern Med coast. * Germany was being bombed from the air with raids of over 100 bombers - 150 over Nuremberg - using the new navigational devices, Gee, HS2 and Oboe. * A massive air bombing fleet was being assembled. The RAF shot down over 700 German fighters over continental Europe in 1941. After the small BEF (only 9% of all allied forces in France) left France in June 1940, the Brits went on the rampage. So much so Franco told Hitler the Brits would win and he would not join in with Germany. The Turkish ambassador to the UK stated that the UK can raise 45 million troops from its empire so will win. He was right.
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  6. Paul Pena Romania alone raised an army of 800,000. Germany were not on their own. With the Axis countries (and Finland) Germany could never have gone on so long.
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  7. Nathan Robinson The strategy was Japan goes west and Germany goes east and they meet up in the middle. If Germany had overcome the USSR in 1942, German and Japanese armies would have met up in the Soviet Far East/Manchuria. The Kwantung army would have been released to fight in the south or Burma/India.
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  8. lucky_kid nutter.
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  9. Ayy Lmao The Yanks still lost.
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  10. They still lost. They were losing the jungle war.
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  11. Ayy Lmao Of course not!  He made it al up. Numerous reading though. 
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  12. Neil Stuckey German could never win, its economy was far too small.
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  13. This book is drivel. This book is aimed at a US audience to give them what they want to hear to sell a book. Avoid if you want to know how matters really progressed. Spitfires used "grass" runways. He was on about filling in "concrete" runways. At no time during the Battle for Britain was the RAF near finished as he is putting across. Spitfire production increased, the RAF was never short of fighters, while Me109 production decreased and the Germans were losing pilots like crazy, while British pilots who bailed out went back into battle - sometimes the same day. The British early warning system of radar, and visual spotters was the first ever "intranet". The Battle was rather one sided and stacked hopelessly against the Germans. The Luftwaffe had first been defeated over Dunkirk, the first German defeat, when the Spitfire made its first appearance. The RAF, and a few French, kept the Luftwaffe largely away from the evacuation beaches hence why it was such a success. More German planes were lost than British. He goes on about that the RAF was nearly defeated. The RAF were far from defeated. They easily won. "Germany First" was Churchill's idea and his statesmanship and powers of persuasion convinced the USA that was the right way. He suggested appointing an American as the head to lead the European campaign, to soften them up. The US assumed a Brit would be in charge. This author is saying it was the US politicians and generals who came up with the idea. Roosevelt stated he was to make 50,000 planes per year in May 1940. On top of UK production, UK industry was about the same size as Germany's, Hitler knew this mass of planes were to come his way with or without US pilots in them. The lead to a full operational plane from order was 18 months and Hitler knew that, hence the gamble to invade the USSR to gain the resources of the east. No resources came from the rest of the world as the RN blockaded Germany. Hitler was preparing for the coming air war with the UK. It came - he was right. This author never knew this. The Japanese took a hiding from the Soviets in 1939 at the Battles of Khalkhin Gol in which the Japanese took 45,000 casualties. The Soviets kept 40 armoured divisions facing the Kwantung army in the Soviet Far East. The Japanese only had poor light tanks. The Japanese were not going to advance on the USSR, with almost certain defeat, when they needed resources for the battles in the south. Again this author is wrong.
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