Every so often I find Youtube vids of WW2 German SIGNAL combat footage, sometimes linked to marching songs like Panzerlied. I ask myself as I look at the faces of the Nazi soldiers, how the hell did we beat these guys?
Similarly around 1962 Harry Reasoner did a CBS Reports on the Federal Republic. I remember the section he did on the Bundeswehr. It showed training maneuvers and Reasoner’s voice over said, “ Their uniforms are American, their helmets are Dutch, their weapons are Belgian... but somehow they still look like Germans.” Times do change.
We didn't. The Russians threw 20 million bodies at them before we really got into the fight.
In a straight up match, those Germans would have kicked our @$$e$ to hell and gone.