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Originally Posted by Torplexed
Spot on. Wasn't having a go at the USA, more saying that the icecream on subs was really a nothing compared with the supplies to a normal combat division when compared with other nations. Interestingly, in some respects the Soviets were superb logisticians and their divs fought very well on even lower supply requirements than the Germans. They also had a mania for camo and concealment, and were probably the best of anyone at achieving large-scale force movements in secret.
Would be interesting to speculate on what a division made up of the best aspects of the various combatants' forces would look like and how it would perform.
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Yeah I always wonder how the Soviets would have performed if Stalin hadn't basically beheaded the Red Army in the 1930s. There were some real armored warfare visionaries in the Soviet General Staff who got the axe. Somehow General Zhukov survived the purges to show what could have been.
Let's seeee. What we need in our mixed WW2 unit is the stoic toughness of the Russians....the stiff upper lip of the British officer corps...the tactical and initiative minded Germans....the wisecracking can-do spunk of the Americans...the martial fervor of the Japanese. The Aussies and Kiwis to add character. Probably have to put the Italians and the French in the quartermastering department. I'm just kiddin'......I have French-Canadian relatives I probably shouldn't post that publicly.
Whoa...I've gone way OoooTeee.
