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To: GreyFriar

The Russian army had just over double the troops in the field as we did. However, the German casualty inflected/received rate against the Russians was 3-1. The Russian army would have faired even worse against US troops with our complete dominance of the air. we also had full access to the northen German ports to deal with supply issues while the Red army would have to Truck everything in from Russia.


69 posted on 01/26/2017 3:00:43 PM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: RedWulf

Agreed, but a certain amount of reconstruction and clearing of the north German ports would have been needed because of 6 years of bombing attacks against them. And if we pushed back the Soviets, I’m sure the Poles would have risen up as well as most of the East European nationalities.


71 posted on 01/26/2017 3:13:43 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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