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To: colorado tanker

At most, the failure of D-Day would have slightly delayed the inevitable Soviet Victory. After the Soviet Victories at Stalingrad and Kursk in 1943, Germany had lost too much war material that it couldn’t replace anywhere near as quickly as the Soviets could and with the loss of the Romanian oilfields a couple of months after D-Day, the Germans lost their only major source of oil, which catastrophically limited their ability to move and provide air-cover....


78 posted on 09/29/2008 2:19:18 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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I agree the decisive battles in the European theater were Stalingrad and Kursk.
79 posted on 09/29/2008 2:52:10 PM PDT by colorado tanker ("I just LOVE clinging to my guns and my religion!!!!" - Sarah Palin)
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