Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:53 pm
Ok, here's a copy-paste of what i've collected so far:
The guerrilla in Bielorussia and Ukraine made insecure the German supply lines by provoking as many casualties as the first line
the success of operation Overlord.
January 1944 when it was created the SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces), whose command was entrusted to General Dwight Eisenhower
In 3 years, American Armed Forces had grown from a contingent of 170.000 men up to more than 7.200.000, of whom 60% employed in Europe.
In 1942, Albert Speer and his organization Todt had promised 15.000 Blockhauses (fortified bunkers) on the French coast within May 1 1943
In May-June 1944, on the French coasts, from 15 up to 20% of the soldiers were not born in Germany. Among these nearly 2/3 were Osttruppen (oriental troops) constituted by men of the oriental allied or occupied nations.
The historian G.A. Harrison affirms that in 1944 in France there were soldiers of 26 different nationalities who fought with the German uniform. Among them there were also divisions of voluntary Nazis from France (The "Legion" and Spain (division "Azul" who would have been known as the cruelest members of the SS units.
special trained men of the SS (Schutzstaffeln, Protection Squads) and of Fallschirmjaeger (paratroopers) commanded by General Kurt Student
Other Generals of the western front had the same opinion and they actively participated in the attack and the attempt of coup d'etat: Speidel, Geyr, von Falkenhausen, von Stülpnagel
Abwehr (the German secret services)
Maquis, the French partisans
Royal Air Force
British special troops
U.S. Navy
3340 heavy bombers of classes B-17 and B-24 and from 930 light bombers Mitchell, Boston, Mosquito, Marauder and Havoc
LCTs (boats of small dimensions in comparison to the LSTs, 33 m against 60 m, that completed the last part of the journey toward the attack beaches)
whole burden of the defense would have weighed on the Wehrmacht, because either the Luftwaffe either the Kriegsmarine were practically nonexistent. The German Navy was composed by few torpedo-boats denominated by the Allies E-Boat (where E stands for Enemy, while the Germans called them S-bootes, Schnellbootes, fast ships) perfect for the corsair war but not for preventing an invasion (note: the small boats, despite their dimensions, were the only ones to sink some allied ships during the D-Day). The formidable "pocket" battleships that had been the scarecrow of the Royal Navy in the first months of war were unusable: the Scharnhorst had been sunk in 1943, the Gneisenau was half-destroyed in the port of Gdynia and the dangerous Tirpitz was forced to remain hidden in the Kaatfjord, in Norway, where the shelter had been transformed in a jail under the continuous threat of the British bombers. The Luftwaffe was only the shadow of itself. On the western front in March 1944 there were only 497 airplanes ready to fly. Of 1000 Me 262 promised by Speer and Göring there were none.
And i've only read the fist 8 docs (of 21)
Tell me what u think of it.
Edited by - XenoMan on 7/11/2004 3:50:43 PM
The guerrilla in Bielorussia and Ukraine made insecure the German supply lines by provoking as many casualties as the first line
the success of operation Overlord.
January 1944 when it was created the SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces), whose command was entrusted to General Dwight Eisenhower
In 3 years, American Armed Forces had grown from a contingent of 170.000 men up to more than 7.200.000, of whom 60% employed in Europe.
In 1942, Albert Speer and his organization Todt had promised 15.000 Blockhauses (fortified bunkers) on the French coast within May 1 1943
In May-June 1944, on the French coasts, from 15 up to 20% of the soldiers were not born in Germany. Among these nearly 2/3 were Osttruppen (oriental troops) constituted by men of the oriental allied or occupied nations.
The historian G.A. Harrison affirms that in 1944 in France there were soldiers of 26 different nationalities who fought with the German uniform. Among them there were also divisions of voluntary Nazis from France (The "Legion" and Spain (division "Azul" who would have been known as the cruelest members of the SS units.
special trained men of the SS (Schutzstaffeln, Protection Squads) and of Fallschirmjaeger (paratroopers) commanded by General Kurt Student
Other Generals of the western front had the same opinion and they actively participated in the attack and the attempt of coup d'etat: Speidel, Geyr, von Falkenhausen, von Stülpnagel
Abwehr (the German secret services)
Maquis, the French partisans
Royal Air Force
British special troops
U.S. Navy
3340 heavy bombers of classes B-17 and B-24 and from 930 light bombers Mitchell, Boston, Mosquito, Marauder and Havoc
LCTs (boats of small dimensions in comparison to the LSTs, 33 m against 60 m, that completed the last part of the journey toward the attack beaches)
whole burden of the defense would have weighed on the Wehrmacht, because either the Luftwaffe either the Kriegsmarine were practically nonexistent. The German Navy was composed by few torpedo-boats denominated by the Allies E-Boat (where E stands for Enemy, while the Germans called them S-bootes, Schnellbootes, fast ships) perfect for the corsair war but not for preventing an invasion (note: the small boats, despite their dimensions, were the only ones to sink some allied ships during the D-Day). The formidable "pocket" battleships that had been the scarecrow of the Royal Navy in the first months of war were unusable: the Scharnhorst had been sunk in 1943, the Gneisenau was half-destroyed in the port of Gdynia and the dangerous Tirpitz was forced to remain hidden in the Kaatfjord, in Norway, where the shelter had been transformed in a jail under the continuous threat of the British bombers. The Luftwaffe was only the shadow of itself. On the western front in March 1944 there were only 497 airplanes ready to fly. Of 1000 Me 262 promised by Speer and Göring there were none.
And i've only read the fist 8 docs (of 21)
Tell me what u think of it.
Edited by - XenoMan on 7/11/2004 3:50:43 PM
