From: "Phil Payne" 


"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:44d09f58{at}w3.nls.net...
> > OK so they took on & beat the vast bulk of the german forces (75%+).
>
> Russian ground forces, I have no dispute on that fact, but it wouldn't
have
> been that way without the other front.
>
> > everyone else, (the US, UK, French, Greeks, Yugoslavs etc etc) had to
> > divide the remaining 25%- between them.
>
> That's a VERY simple (and wrong) way of looking at it.  Thought
> experiment -- what happens when you take away the western front, move all
> those forces to the east, give Germany back its manufacturing capacity and
> an overwhelming airforce, take away western aid to Russia, including
> military aid.

Back to Ribbentrop (and he oughta know better than either of us):

a) Red Army
b) US logistics
c) Lack of air superiority in the West

Why take away arbitrary components?

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