Posts by Roman

Quote from chester7777

Thank you Roman for the very insightful prospective of that time during WW2. All war is a sad state of affairs, especially when some folks just happen to be making vast sums of money from it.

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Chester

Thank you! I found You via Internet. One of my favourite proverbs is: "Courage is scared... sattling up anyway."
How I became a Duke Fan? It is easy to answer. Once you saw him in one of his western movies, you have to like him. If you miss this, there must be something wrong with you. Seeing the Duke in his movies gives me always a good time. he encorporated there and in his privat life much of what I also hold high.

Quote from The Ringo Kid

One of my Uncles was at the Battle of the Bulge too-he served in the 101st Airborne (Fallschirmjager) Division and was in Bastongue (SP?) I also know several German vets who were there as well. One vet served on the Eastern Fornt most of his war service-was at Battles like Kursk--and he said he knew they had lost the war in 43--when they saw littered all over the battlefield-C-and K-Ration boxes of food that the Russians were eating. He picked up a box and it said: Made in the USA.

This is the opinion of most historians. That the entry of the USA fixed the outcome of the war. Moscow was close to fall in late 1941 when the Sibirian troops of the USSR, set free because it was clear that Japan was no more thread in the East, enforced Stalins defense decisively, besides from the material help of the western allies via Murmansk with a steady flow in of supply.
By the way, it is Einzelhaft, not Einselhaft!

My uncle took part in the Battle of Bulge which is called in Germany "Ardennenschlacht" (Battle of the Ardennes). He recounted me that he was there with the German forces as a young man and once he stumbled over a patrol of US soldiers. They were four and since he was in advantage he shot three of them instantly with his automatic gun while one was running away and he let him go. It turned out that all three were black men. My uncle confessed that he could never forget this killing and it was haunting him sometimes at night through all these years. He was 18 years or so. He also said that the Germans lost all chances when the wheather cleared off and the tanks were an easy target for the us aircraft. They had also very short supply of fuel which hindered their operational abilities. He said that the US troops were always on the retreat whenever they faced equal strong German forces. I told him, that is the way to win wars. He said the unexperienced US troops were no match for the Germans, but the Germans were sooner or later outnumbered. He said, when he was a war prisoner he was surprised to notice the material abundance of the allies, only then he realized that Germany could not win the war. This was in late 1944.