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To: WhiskeyPapa
Egypt was vital to the Brits, it was a sideshow to Hitler.

In typical Walt fashion, you simply marginalize and downplay any tangible evidence that does not fit with your preset position. It would be laughable if it were not so sad.

Back in the real world, the turning points of World War II are interpreted in three battles.

One is the stalemate in Stalingrad, which personified the collapse of Hitler's push into Russia. One is Midway, which turned the Pacific theater. And one is El Alamein. Those three battles turned the war, Walt. Others after them were great and glorious victories, but the Nazi and Japanese pushes were cut strategically at those three battles. Wars do not turn on meaningless engagements in inconsequential regions, Walt.

1,006 posted on 11/19/2002 11:53:05 AM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
Regardless of the strategic importance of El Alemein, Hitler only sent German troops to Africa to buck up the Italians.

And as I indicate, the Afrika Corps was left to die by Hitler; he had bigger fish to fry.

I am again wondering why I would give your opinion credence over that of General Fuller, who, by the way, is often given credit for the concept of "the expanding torrent" that the Germans developed into an operational technique called in the west -- "Blitzkrieg".

Walt

1,011 posted on 11/19/2002 12:01:00 PM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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To: GOPcapitalist
One is the stalemate in Stalingrad, which personified the collapse of Hitler's push into Russia. One is Midway, which turned the Pacific theater. And one is El Alamein. Those three battles turned the war, Walt.

Those three battles marked the high-water mark of the Axis. Only hind-sight would say that they were "turning points." No one in 1942 thought that the war had turned and over the next 3 years, any number of blunders by the allies or successes by the Axis could have resulted in a very different outcome.

1,021 posted on 11/19/2002 12:15:24 PM PST by Ditto
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