About outnumbered airforce, I remind you, that in 41, and 42, Soviet VVS was significantly outnumbering Luftwaffe, and got their asses handed to them... twice.
Really?
Because German claims... verified by Soviet reports, of the Germans destroying thousands of Soviet aircraft... many sitting uncamouflaged at their forward air fields suggest that the numerical superiority of the Soviet Air Force didn't last the first week of the German attack on the Soviet Union.
The only saving grace was that most were destroyed on the ground so the loss of pilots was not that heavy, and of course most of the aircraft destroyed were obsolete types.
Only in 43 , with addition of more modern fighters and better training, Soviet pilots actually began to fight back seriously.
Of course... in 1941 the Soviet pilots were only playing for fun and giggles, it was only in 1943 they got serious.
I would suggest that from day one the Soviet pilots were serious and the superior experience of the German pilots fresh from wiping out the air forces of Europe bar the Royal air force is actually what caused such losses and defeats.
Having most of your planes destroyed also makes fighting the enemy a little one sided as well.
By 43 training and aircraft quality and tactics had improved but it is not like there were no victories in the air before 1943. Not all Soviet aces flew from 1943 onwards.
There were at least 3 main battles, which broke the Germans: Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, NONE of them involved "Elephant killing ants in the millions", like you say.
WHAT?
How many Soviet soldiers and pilots and even sailors died in each of these battles? It wasn't millions by any chance?
The German elephant walked away from Moscow largely uneffected... more embarrassed than anything really, but Stalingrad was a more serious blow and Kursk was the killing blow from which they didn't recover.
Kursk was the Soviets beating the Germans in open combat... previously the Soviets succeeded by luring the Germans into a city and grinding them, Kursk was the Soviets fighting the Germans in their ideal mobile style of land warfare... and beating them at it.
Early in the war, Luftwaffe was the most powerful airforce IN THE WORLD
It lacked range and independence from the Army.
No four engined bombers because it was optimised to support its army.
When the Army was not there it failed.
If we compare militaries of Germany, and her foes, we can clearly see, that allies weren't ready ONLY in the air. On the ground, they were prepared pretty well...
How many weeks did it take for Germany to reach the English channel?
the only serious threat to Germany in western europe was the UK and France and France relied on the Maginot line to give it time and allies.
they assumed the maginot line would force Germany to either take months or years punching through the fortified line... which meant plenty of time for mobilisation, or it would attack through the low countries which meant time and lots of allies created on the way.
We now know the Germans prepared rather better than France expected and that the Low countries capitulated rather than fight which left them very little time to prepare their forces to repel the attack.
No, it isn't. LA-5FN was introduced in 43, then war was far from decided....
The war was decided at Kursk, where the German forces had all the time they needed to prepare, they got their super tanks into position, and failed in the type of combat they prefer.
There were only two of them built. I doubt that would've changed much.
They had several different types and a fairly large program to build them. Each of the 2 heavy gustavs needed the equivalent of a crew of a large battleship to set up... and there were plenty of other siege guns they developed and built at signficant cost.
they might have built a few thousand more fighter planes, or some long range bombers that could reach the urals...
As far as 4E bombers go, Germany couldn't really afford them.
The Soviets and British could both afford to develop and build 4 engine bombers... Germany could easily afford such things, but their Air Force had little political power.
[quyote]Churchill:"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" [/quote]
"History will look favourably upon me for I intend to write it myself..."
A war western europe gave up on????? Are you kidding me?
They surrendered... except for the UK.
Western europe never gave up on the war they always keeped fighting and fighting what about the war in africa the soviets didnt fought on that front at all except for the invasion of Iran!
Western Europe fought in africa?
The UK did, with its commonwealth allies, but how many European countries sent units apart from units in exile. The US sent more forces to Africa than Europe did... unless you count the German and Italian forces.
If d-day failed more of europe would be communism and communism is the baddest thing on earth!
If D Day was launched in 1942 then there wouldn't have been a Warsaw Pact and the western allies could have liberated Poland... the thing is they weren't prepared to pay the cost in lives... they would much rather let the Soviets and Germans kill each other on the Eastern Front.
Perhaps if the west had shown some stones earlier Stalin might have been rather more flexible. As it was he knew the Soviets bore the brunt of the ground fighting and therefore had rather higher expectations of the spoils and results.
Soviets dying and fighting for the west??? NEVER!!!! Where do you base that story on?
it was the eastern front that defeated the Germany army... not the bombing of german women and children and old men in their homes.
If the allies didnt won d day the germans would have aimed all of their arrows on the soviets and believe me then the us would've had Berlin.
D-day went ahead because the western powers feared Stalin taking all of Germany and perhaps parts of western europe.
]He was a disgusting British Empire sympatisant and also loved the methods and disgusting maxims of the British Empire.
Just look at the Boer war... their scorched earth policy resulted in the deaths of mainly children in concentration camps (They invented that concept/tool: concentration camp BTW).
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