The German Army was the best fighting force in the second World War. While this little snippet is very supportive of my point in many ways, the most important point is at the end:
"An often-overlooked characteristic of the late-war German Army was the liberal use of machine-guns with high rates of fire and medium- and heavy-caliber mortars. Although German battalions were often smaller than those of their opponents by 1944, they were still capable, in terms of organic weapons, of bringing substantially higher weights of fire to bear than those of their opponents. This discrepancy in relative weights of fire made the dislodgement of defending German units difficult, and often resulted in Western Allied and Soviet tendencies to 'even the odds' through the use of artillery and air support."
The most important point to note here is that the German Army was too difficult for other armies to defeat - because the land forces of the Western Allied and Soviet countries were inferior to the German army, they could not attack entrenched German troops and had to attack with their air forces instead, fighting instead of the Heer the comparatively weak Luftwaffe.
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"The most important point to note here is that the German Army was too difficult for other armies to defeat."
ReplyDeleteI don't know if this follows--after all the German army was defeated by 1945 and Berlin taken. It made it difficult, but then, that is why the allies used artillery and air support to "even the odds" as you might say. By 1945, the German airforce was a nuisance rather than a viable opponent. In this context, combined arms defeats one arm (so to speak), right?
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