ITT: post embarrassingly disproportionate battles of WW2
Have included 2 of Axis and 2 of Allied to get us off to a balanced start.
ITT: post embarrassingly disproportionate battles of WW2
Jose Sanchez
Blake Young
The wehrmacht was powerful.
Adrian Perry
Anthony Kelly
In most of these battles Germans had air support while the allies did not.
Mason Scott
Never heard of Hegra Fortress, nice
Aiden Edwards
Could you point out one from the OP where that's the case?
Grayson Peterson
Jesus Christ I never fully realised how comprehensively the Italians were beaten during Operation Compass.
Aaron Diaz
Bump
Thomas Russell
>136000 troops present
>170000 total casualties
Jaxson Cooper
tank crews maybe
Tyler Foster
Usually strength listed is number of troops at the start of an operation, or sometimes some sort of peak strength. The total number of troops involved, assuming a constant stream of reinforcements to compensate for losses, is often higher.
Grayson Lopez
How the fuck did those Soviet casualties happen? I don't understand it. I know that the ways of counting casualties were different. But they weren't so different that they could be held responsible for that kind of losses. Could someone explain this shit to me? It perplexes me.
Jace Cooper
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Landon Wilson
JUST
Dylan Carter
For tannenberg it was basically wave after wave of attacks on a fortified position filled with SS veterans
Logan Scott
No supplies,pretty much no organization,nepotism in the ranks of the army,illiteracy,multilinguism,low morale,bad military equipment when it was available.
Aiden Ward
again,this battle is fake
Charles Nelson
K Mario, care to explain this Italian poster commemorating this "fictitious" battle then?
Hudson Wilson
can we talk about Italy during WW2?
everyone goes on and on about the Wehrmacht, the Red Army, the Royal Airforce etc
can someone give me a rundown?
is it true that they tried to invade Greece, but failed and needed Germany to save them?
is it true that they were pretty much occupied by Germany by the end?
Jonathan Rivera
First they tried to invade France but were stopped by nine guys
But then France surrendered to the Germans and Italy was given a small occupation zone in South Eastern France
Then they tried to invade Greece but failed, forcing the Germans to comit and fucking up their invasion of the USSR
Then the Operation Compass happened in North Africa, and Italy became the first country in history to take more casualties than the number of men it had
Brayden Fisher
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Andrew Bell
This didn't happen. It's post-war French propaganda.
Jason Gray
>133,298 captured
How did they feed them? Where did they storaged them? How did they prevented them from revolting?
I know italian incompetency isn't unreal but this better be a fucking joke.
Jonathan Hughes
>1 carrier and 16 warships vs 9 warships and a seaplane
It's disproportionate indeed but the most numerous side won, so not embarassing
Easton Brooks
See
Ayden Nelson
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Luis Thomas
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Carson Jenkins
british literally used tanks and flanked them
italy was never able to do anything alone in the war after this
Isaac Kelly
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Aaron Carter
Reinforcements over time
Jose Wright
Nathaniel Brown
>The Wehrmacht lost at least 100 tanks and several other AFVs in the struggle.[14][citation needed]
Asher Peterson
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