Hi Rick, Good to hear from you. I think we're at cross purposes here. My sole concern re US losses in WW2 was to underline one point: total American dead in the Pacific campaign under General MacArthur as supreme commander were many times fewer than in the European theatre under Eisenhower. Regards, Bob.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Littrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 5:49 AM Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] Re: [Biofuel] Re: The Energy Crunch To Come > Dear Bob, > > With respect to the US contribution to the European theater consider > that at Stalingrad the German losses were 300,000 and the Russian > 400,000 and Stalingrad was a battle that the Russians won! At Kursk the > Germans lost 100,000 killed and wounded and the Russians 250,000 killed > and 600,000 wounded. It was the largest armored battle prior to the > 1967 Arab - Israeli war. The US involvement in the fighting in Europe > was not pivotal to the outcome. > > Rick _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/