5 ms·
Regardless of Spitfires, Alan Turing, anti-sub technology, RADAR etc, WW2 was won and lost on the Eastern front. The Normandy invasion would have been impossibl
by willyt 7y ago
Regardless of Spitfires, Alan Turing, anti-sub technology, RADAR etc, WW2 was won and lost on the Eastern front. The Normandy invasion would have been impossible without the Russians sacrificing between 8-11 million soldiers. This compares to about 400k each for the UK and US.
I'm just saying, don't get carried away with the technological superiority argument, there was plenty of innovation on both sides. After all, the engineer that designed the Apollo rocket was a Nazi weapons scientist.
- Aloha 7y agoNo real disagreement there - the war was won on the back of Russian Bodies, American Trucks, and British Grit. The germans did indeed have wonderful technology in labs, and had it made it into mass production, it would have made the war stretch out much much longer.
- philwelch 6y agoAnd the Eastern Front was largely won and lost on the Atlantic Ocean.
- antod 6y agoAnd the Arctic Ocean etc etc The Soviets won out eventually, but without the west they could very well have lost before they really got ready.