We had a family friend who was in the second war too. He was in 4 campaigns and 3 invasions. (including, N. Africa and Italy-Anzio, Mt. Casino).
I asked him how the Germans lost.
HE said the Germans were SUPER TOUGH enemies and in the end they ran out of gas.... literally.
BTW, he said the British 8th Army (I guess it was) was partly made up of Sherpa's ... and THOSE guys were incredible. He said, at Casino they would go up the hill at night and return with prisoners, on demand.
“..and in the end they ran out of gas.... literally.”
I recall my HS history teacher showing photos of mules taking the new German jets out on the runways so they wouldn’t waste fuel on the taxi way.
And I think it was some German that lamented something like “They shoot one of ours down and it is gone. We shoot one of theirs down and they replace it with ten more!”
I think you mean Gurkhas...not Sherpas. Sherpas are the guys helping climbers in the Himalayas. Both are from Nepal, but it's the Gurkhas who were the warriors. My wife's father was an airplane (aeroplane if you're British) mechanic with the RAF in Burma during WWII. He said the Gurkhas were the best soldiers he ever saw.