Andreas

Maybe you need to get some books after all? Alternatively Google may help. How far away can you keep from combat if you get shot in the chest?

I disagree with that analysis. Had Bradley's forces, including Pattons, been given the fuel and other supplies diverted to Monty, the Allies very well could have occupied the Ruhr in October 1944, rather than March 1945. From there, Berlin is a short hop. </font>

'Fighting in hell' is just slightly more realistic than Grimm's fairy-tales when it comes to assessing Soviet performance. It is the result of Marshall's history project, IIRC. In this project, German generals were asked to write up their experience on the eastern front for the benefit of the US Army. There seems to have been little to no effort to corroborate the information provided by these officers. The view you get is the equivalent level of history to what you would expect from your grandfather talking to you over a beer, not serious military analysis. One contributor (Generaloberst Raus) to the project hailed by Peter Tsouras (who edited Fighting in Hell) in another book is quite suspect in my view for just making stuff up. Cracking read though. I think in Fightin in Hell he claims that the Soviets never achieved good air-ground co-ordination. Sure. Most of those who encountered 'Russian masses' when the Soviets had become proficient at what they did, did not live to tell the tale - or if they lived, hung about in a Soviet POW camp while the stuff in the book was written (check on the recent thread by me on the topic, entitled 'The receiving end', IIRC). If you want to have the 'Russian masses' referred to there, you just buy early-war conscripts in a QB, since a lot of this stuff referred to the early war. From mid- to late-war onwards, the 'Russian masses' were most of the time the result of very careful operational planning, and had been trained quite well to perform their role. Which is why little is written about it. Finally, I just have to ask that - does anyone else think the sub-title of the book is most inappropriate?

Found a reference to Benzedrine use in 'Churchill's Folly' by Anthony Rogers (highly recommended book on the ill-fated Aegean campaign of autumn 1943). This snippet refers to the battle for Leros, incidentally probably the last assault parachute landing the Germans conducted in the war.

I would not worry about that, since you already have more country-specific trucks in CMBB.

Works fine in Netscape 7.1 Windows XP.

It is Nigel Evans excellent site on the Royal Artillery. Superb jobby.

Yes please.

That should answer any questions you may have: Battlefield.ru on ATRs

You are welcome, but it was not me. Might have been Berli.

I think Anthony on the previous page was the only one so far to mention Antwerp. That was probably the biggest mistake Montgomery made, and IIRC it needed a very straight and direct order from Eisenhower to make him deal with it. It is interesting that in this case he completely ignored logistics, while previously he had shown himself to be a master in that area. When Eisenhower's order made Montgomery deal with the Antwerp conundrum, a month had been lost. Even after Market Garden, another thrust to the Ruhr was planned for a short time before the importance of the Antwerp problem was realised. Market Garden tends to obscure that fairly significant oversight.

They replaced them with T34s, at least on paper. You know it makes sense. The Nov. 1943 Shtat gives the Tank Brigade 3x21 medium tanks = 63 total. The July 1942 Shtat gave it 31 T34 and 21 T60/70 = 52 total. The Dec. 1941 Shtat gives it 16 T60, 20 T34 and 10 KV1 in two battalions, 46 tanks total. You can see how the hitting power increased at the same time as logistics were more and more simplified. Not sure what the TOAW numbers are based on.

Woops - you are completely right of course. I go and phone Col. Glantz to tell him to can all his other projects to deal with Karelia NOW!

1) By 1944, no. The T70 had been phased out by then (and none had been produced for almost 18 months, IIRC), although it would probably still be found in backwater areas (Karelia?), and my suspicion is quite regularly in Cavalry Corps. I have two different sources mentioning light tanks and one showing pictures of a T70 in 1944, one on the Dnjestr, the other in East Prussia. 2) Say 50-50, again with more T34-76 in backwater areas, or less important units.

Why would I? You obviously know all there is to know already, except for correct English. Is that chip on your shoulder making straight walking very difficult?

Must have been separated at birth.

Careful Michael, I think Mr. Tittles has issues with criticism. Don't you see he is writing a new bible?

As a non-native speaker of English, eliminate in English does not have the same connotation as 'eliminieren' in German does. It is used constantly in conversation in 'non-destructive intent' ways, by me, and by native speakers. The quote above supports that interpretation of the word.

Tosh. One of the things that get trotted out time and again by apologists trying to get the blame shifted from Adolf. If you want to know the reasons, you look at Vol. IV of the 'Germany and the 2nd World War' by the MGFA (Office of Military History of the Bundeswehr), which has a good treatment of this topic. That is to all intents and purposes the official German history of the war. Alternatively, do a search on the CMBB forum where this has been discussed. Any bets how long it will take until Schoerner turns up?

Well, Anzio is a bit special, since everything in the Hinterland was drained marshland. The towns of Anzio/Nettuno themselves are not flat at all. The coastal plain is always quite flat, but other than that, Italy is mostly extremely broken and mountainous, and quite often these mountains reach to the sea too. Lovely country, unless you come to conquer it.

However, much of Tunisia is flat as a board </font>

501. fought from November (Tigers arrived in December) to January. Thereafter 504. arrived. I guess they just took over the tanks. At the beginning, only single-digit numbers were there, and just a few operational at any given day. Where did you get the kill numbers from, out of interest?

Tunisia is not exactly flat. That is the only part of the campaign where they served.

You have to be careful when visiting Pestilence, you may catch something. I suggest Class-A bio protection suit and BYOB. No point in ever visiting Famine, you'll go hungry and thirsty all the time.

You're right. We ran some comparison tests sometime around the beginning of the year that conclusively showed that graphics are consistently downsampled on all Macs, although some cards did better than others. Michael </font>