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@Petal4822
Not really...
Half of the 14,000 tanks supplied to Russia were British. This should be set against Soviet tank production of 105,000.
The numbers of aircraft supplied ws 18,000, of which 7,000 came from Britain. Soviet aircraft production amounted to 143,000.
The boots came from Britain - 15 million pairs. The wheeled vehicles amounted to one third of Russian vehicles - in February 1945.
Russia was invaded by Germany, Britain was bombed, blockaded, and it had the Germans 21 miles away for four years. The USA was 3,000 miles from any threat to its homeland.
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@alanle1471
Many of the German formations that fought in the Bulge were created in the Autumn of 1944. After Eisenhower had given the the Germans the two things they most wanted then, time and space.
Montgomery warned that Eisenhower that his policies would leave the allied forces too thinly spread out, one of Bradley's subordinate commanders, Patton specifically warned about the danger in the Ardennes just before the German attack.
Come the battle, Bradley lost control of events, Hodges went to ground. To his credit, Eisenhower seems to have learned by previous mistakes, he went straight to Montgomerey, who postponed Operation Veritable and sorted out the northern half of the bulge. The American troops on the ground seem to have acquitted themselves well.
Here is Alanbrooke's observation on the battle.
‘There was no doubt that the Americans had had a severe shock. Their commanders had chosen to ignore the two most elementary rules of war – concentration and the possession of a reserve to counter the enemy’s moves and keep the initiative.’
German commanders had given the German plan at best a 5% chance of success.
The later successful campaign was British, Canadian, French and US.
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