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Uh no. I'll just address the inaccuracies in your second paragraph. By the time the US was engaging the Germans on land (Operation Torch in Nov. 1942), the Ge
by greedo 9y ago
Uh no.
I'll just address the inaccuracies in your second paragraph.
By the time the US was engaging the Germans on land (Operation Torch in Nov. 1942), the Germans were already stuck in Stalingrad and had been defeated in their attempt to capture Moscow. They would never pose a serious threat in the East again. By spring they would be retreating as the Soviets unleashed their rebuilt armies on the weary Wehrmacht.
Operation Torch didn't go "poorly," though the green US troops didn't perform as well as seasoned British or German troops would have. Nor did US troops perform poorly during Operation Husky. By the time the Allies landed in Normandy, the US was performing extremely well.
Strategic airstrikes by the US (and British) never had a significant impact on the German industrial output. Nor did they have a damaging effect on German morale.
- partycoder 9y ago+1 regarding Operation Torch, but regarding the oil campaign: > Strategic airstrikes by the US (and British) never had a significant impact on the German industrial output. This is the prevailing Allied view since most of the German industry ran on coal. But Germans themselves disagree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II#Opinions_on_outcome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II#O...