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To: mkjessup
Patton analyzed our enemies accurately, you think you’re smarter than he was? --- Patton was wrong. if it werent for the nuke, Soviets would destroy US army on the ground. US M4 Sherman against T-34 or IS-3 (122 mm gun)?
11 posted on 08/14/2008 2:43:33 PM PDT by kronos77 (Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem. No Serbia without Kosovo.)
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To: kronos77

Hey Comrade, the only reason the Soviets won the ‘Great Patriotic War’ was because of tons of lend lease from the U.S. and the West that was never paid for, and the reason the vaunted Red Army had such a hard time was because Uncle Joe Stalin purged the military of any truly capable officers and was left with political apparatchiks and other Communist Party stooges.

But you go right ahead and enjoy your fantasy world.


13 posted on 08/14/2008 2:47:05 PM PDT by mkjessup (Romania had the Ceausescus, America has the Clintons.)
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To: kronos77

if it werent for the nuke, Soviets would destroy ....

If it werent for daylight it would be dark all the time too.

You sound like a fan of an aggressive and imperial Russia.


20 posted on 08/14/2008 2:54:20 PM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: kronos77
Patton analyzed our enemies accurately, you think you’re smarter than he was? --- Patton was wrong. if it werent for the nuke, Soviets would destroy US army on the ground. US M4 Sherman against T-34 or IS-3 (122 mm gun)?

The US and UK would of been able to use newer tanks just coming out at the end of WW II, British Comet and the American M-26 Pershing that would of been more than a match for the T-34 and IS tanks. Also, from what I read about the Battle of Berlin the Red Army was forced to use teenage boys to keep up its manpower. RAF and USAAF would of established air superiority considering the Soviets were never able to establish that against the Luftwaffe. We had the heavy bombers to strike deeply into Soviet lines of communications.

58 posted on 08/14/2008 3:40:28 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: kronos77

US just had limited Pershing tanks 90mm
USSR had tons of T34-85 (equal)
IS-2 superior
IS-3 superior
SU-85 SU-100 Su-122

Patton also knew the importance of air power though. Tanks are useless without planes.


86 posted on 08/14/2008 5:33:51 PM PDT by omega4179 (B.Hussein Keep the change!)
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