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I think you have it the wrong way round. Irving featured in a lengthy court case where it was proved beyond doubt he falsified the historical record in order to advance his vile agenda. A simple...

Court proven liars are not the best of sources.

It needed Soviet approval. The key was to get Stalin to stay out of areas he agreed to and by and large that is what he did.

Churchill did not 'wrote' nor planned any division. He accepted reality. No one was in a position to remove the Soviets. I fully agree with his decision and I am sure I speak for the entire...

The Alliance with Stalin was a decisive factor in the defeat of Hitler.
Stalin was not 'given' Eastern Europe he took it no one was in a position to remove him.
Churchill was elected again in...

The promise by the UK was to preserve a country called Poland and to ensure its place ona post war map. Last I checked that promise was kept,

Beevor is just plain wrong.
Mongomery clearly wrote in his D-Day orders that Caen was not to be attacked frontally if the opposition was too strong.
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3 British Division


a) The...

British AT guns were among the best in WW2. The 2 pdr, 6 pdr and 17 pdr were every bit as deadly as any German design. It is a mistake to denigrate the 2 pdr (40mm) when it was a very capable...

Why yes you must be right. I mean 2 more or less identical very complicated 'things' being invented at once by 2 different people?
Must be espionage.
Anyone claiming otherwise must be one of...

The first full operational Jet Squadron was British. The German had their jets in various mixed/testing Units but never as a full sqaudron until after the British squadron became operatiopnal..
It...

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd297/armeiro1/MP28II/b2iohr.jpg

It is not widely known that the Germans tested a new shape in 1942-1944 and it was found to be superior to the 'classic' design....

Google 'open face sallet' and see how many centuries the design pre-dates 'Germany'

If it was true (which it is not) how does that impact on the loss rate. If a Unit lost all its tanks 5 times over then it is a 500% loss rate.


A much used excuse made to try and explain away...

Now lets get back to facts.
Claim-you were safer as a Tiger/PzIV crewman than a Cromwell/Sherman /Stuart crewman

Numbers at Villers Bocage.
4th CLY. 9 tanks penetrated and 11 dead.
sSS PzAbt...

If you are going to introduce a source then at least have the decency to stick to what it actually says rather than alter bits so it so it means what you want it to say. Clearly your source is...

I found your source on Google books (which I suspect is how you got it in the first place) and the source for the claim the Tiger was first engaged in Normandy (wrong)and that the 17 pdr could not...

　
So you introduce a source only to then correct your own source!
Obviously the author is very badly referenced. There were 140 Tiger I and 45 TII in Normandy by the way. I have extensive access...

No. The thread is 'tech' based. The Churchill was just as tough as the Tiger. I showed the Churchill to be just as 'high tec' as the Tiger.



　
And yet when the statistics for 3rd AD were...

Only you are interested in which tank is better in a one-on-one fight in an open field. My object is to show who had the more effective tank force. A decision was made by the Allied to run with a...

Yes everyone has heard of the Tiger hit 227 times and 'survived'. The fact that only 25 of these hits were actual AP shells is glossed over.

How many people know about this Churchill?
23rd...

Yes context.
Suppose tank A needs 3 times as many shells to knock it out as does tank B.
Suppose then that there are 10 times as many tank B than there are tank A.
Suppose further that tank A...

I have read 'Jentz' and have copies of every single book with his name on it. I say straight out that there is no Jentz table that shows German tanks were as 'reliable' as Allied tanks. All you have...

Incorrect. Jentz made no such study. Faulty final drives (a design fault) was the bane of the Panzer Arm right up to the end.

I find the claim of German technical superiority being proved by Pz...

List them so we can see this vast pool of technical superior weapons.
Germany was forced , by desperation, to field all manner of impractical weapons that were not battle worthy in 1945. Aircraft...

So we have moved from the initial claim 'all' German technology was 'superior' and now use advances in one area to prove that Germany was the most advanced nation in WW2. Quite a downshift.
A pity...

Now it is getting absurd. Is it possible that some believe that the principles of rocketry can only spring from a German mind and no other nation can ever replicate German achievements?
The UK...

Correct. It had nothing to do with any sceintific superiority and everything to do with the total defeat of every arm of the German military. Wunderwaffen X, Y and Z all failed to stave off defeat.

Yes. The reason was German was totally defeated.

The moral side is a separate matter. Clearly it was not a war crime and attempts to say it was are pointless. The thing about bridges, Railway yards and other critical stuff is it nearly always...

One has to wonder why Germany produced 7,000 flak guns of 8.8cm and over in 1944 given the 'ineffective' bombing.
58% of all heavy flak, 40% of light flak and 80% of searchlights were defending...

Belgrade............

No t so. The only German civilians hit by British bombs prior to the bombing of London were those around Naval base.
If you want to say that those civilians count as 'terror bombing' victims then...

It was a response to German raids on British civilians. The UK was not facing 'defeat' after the BOB either It seems your 'teachers' can't even get the basic facts right.

The US bombed just as many civilian targets as the RAF. They called their civilian targets 'Marshalling Yards' to hide the fact.

From Carl A. Spaatz and the Air War in Europe by Richard G. Davis....

The primary mission was to disrupt production. This includes elimination of transport links, moving populations away from the factories, diverting resources to repairing housing damage & even...

Sorry but there was failure to 'take Caen' It was captured. You could (using the same criteria)say the same of the 'failure' to take Cherbourg.

Nearly every upside down tank was the result of either the roadway collapsing under the weight or deliberate tipping of wrecks off a road. The Tiger iluustrated above is the only one known to have...

First the upside down Tiger:

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/schwere/goodwoodbombing2.jpg

Then 2 views of a burnt out Tiger:...

There are photos of 3 Tigers wrecked by heavy bombers. One upside down, One burnt out and one burnt out half covered by debris in a bomb crater. Those are direct victims. A further photo shows a...

Not quite.
The incident is the first day of Operation Goodwood (18/7/44) where 3rd kp sPzAbt.503 was caught by the heavy bombing. At least 3 Tigers were confirmed destroyed by the bombers and maybe...