Hakan, I just joined the list a couple of days ago, so I must have missed your earlier comments.
Cheers Bill On Apr 11, 2005 2:24 PM, Hakan Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill, > > The material support from US (lend lease), was absolutely > pivotal to defeat Germany and thereby also the US industrial > workers. This is something that I acknowledge and also said > earlier in the discussion. The fighter air war, was won by both > the British technology and pilots. The terror bombing strategy > and technology was invented and developed by the Germans > and dependent again more on the industrial workers than the > pilots skills and US was pivotal. > > Europe paid its dues for the pivotal US industrial support, > both monetary and by favor US corporate activities in Europe. > We can take this to an other level and look at the reasons, > plus the power groups in WWII, but it would be too long > for me at the moment. > > Hakan > > > At 01:08 AM 4/11/2005, you wrote: > > > The US involvement in the fighting in Europe > > > was not pivotal to the outcome. > > > >There's no question that the Soviets did the lion's share of fighting > >and defeating the German Army. However, leaving aside lend-lease > >shipments, there's one area in which the involvement of the Western > >Allies (the US and UK) was pivotal to the defeat of Germany, and that > >was the Air war, and the bombing campaigns. Richard Overy, in his book > >"How the Allies Won" (if I'm recalling the title correctly) makes that > >case rather well. > > > >Bill > > > > > >On Apr 9, 2005 8:19 PM, bmolloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
