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Yes, really. The 6th Airborne, those that are still alive that is can say whatever they want to. Had the 21. Panzer-Division been stationed closer to the 6th Airbornes dropzones and concentrated their counterattack against them, instead of counterattacking everywhere (particulary against the...

Using caps and bold style doesn't make you any more correct. Three regiments from the 352nd and one regiment from 716th I.D. was on or near Omaha beach. 352. I.D 914. Defended west of Omaha beach, counterattacked the rangers at Point du Hoc. 915. Attached to Kampfgruppe Meyer together with the...

Regular, not high. There was nothing special about the 352nd. and Norway. Never said it would be. Where are the WAllies going to land otherwise? No, the problem you bring up is about counterattacking on D-day, I meant closer reinforcements to counterattack on D-day+1. Sure, but it was an...

Better positioning: On Omaha only one infantry regiment (916th) of the 352.I.D. fought the invasion, the other two (914th and 726th) were either in the wrong position or attached to a different unit. Have the full division (including its SutG batterie of 10 StuG III) in position to defend the...

2.SS Was stationed near Toulouse on June 6th, that is in the south of France. Its arrival was specifically sabotaged by the SOE and delayed its arrival to 15 days, so using the 2.SS as an example is a fairly bad one.

The question that ought to be asked rather is: do important times bring forth great individuals or do great individuals bring forth important times? Example 1: Alexis Komnenoi, Rodrigo de Vivar, Bohemond de Hauteville, William I the Bastard Example 2: Richard I Plantagenet, Friedrich II...

Why are you still arguing this pointless question?

How do you value one type of technology over one other? There is no answer that isn't based on an arbitary set of evaluations. So answer given by anyone is fairly meaningless to anyone not using the same set of arbitarary evaluations. During a war is heavy bombers more important then tanks? Are...

No I'm precipitating the usual arguments made in threads like these by people who have only read British or German sources on the North African campaign.

No, I've never read a single word ever about the Italian army ever, it is a complete unknown to me.... :rolleyes:

Pish-posh everyone knows the mighty British army will always triumph against the Italians, their tanks have one gear forward and five in reverse and their infantry run at the slightest wiff of British gunpowder.... :rolleyes:

It wouldn't say that, it would say "23-year old male found dead in garage after having tried to build a laser sword from Star Trek"

Yes the "suprise" was truly decisive at Smolensk or Vyazma :rolleyes:

Hush, you're not supposed to say things like that here, everyone "knows" here what ensured Barbarossa to be as successful as it was, was the suprise and speed of the German advance....:rolleyes:

The problem isn't if Italy could pull of a frogman attack on Alexandria early, the problem is why would they? Mussolini entered the war in the belief that it would be a short one, as we all know he was wrong. This kind of attack is done when you know the war will be long and you need an early...

Where did I say it did?

No, that was his excuse. The reason was he believed Germany couldn't win.

Doubtfull that it'd be much greater then historically with exception of the iron ore production. That would be increased earlier, but not by much as those were captured and put into production for the German warmachine fairly early. If Spain were to start importing strategic materials in the...

From my understanding even before the war Spain was a very poor country with most of its economy based on agriculture and most of its industry based on raw material production with very little in terms of manufacturing capabilites. So from what I knw even if Spain were to join the Axis with a...