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Old 04-25-2014, 10:44 PM
 
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It has been pretty much proven that the Russian got the design and pattern for the Kalashnikov rifle from the Germans at the end of WW2(as they over ran Germany)
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Old 04-26-2014, 12:33 AM
 
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It has been pretty much proven that the Russian got the design and pattern for the Kalashnikov rifle from the Germans at the end of WW2(as they over ran Germany)



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Old 04-26-2014, 10:08 AM
 
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So, your main claim to fame is that the Sten was cheap and easy to produce making it revolutionary and changing the way guns were made after.
You are getting there. Previously guns were precision artisan made products. The Sten was super chap and did exactly what it was supposed to do inspiring may guns after.

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The strategic bombing campaign had little impact on Germany until late in 1944.
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the British and US actually suspended daylight bombing through the latter half of 1943.
Only the US did daylight raids in the outdated and slow B-17. The 8 man B-17 had the same bomb load as the 2 man Mosquito. Mosquitos freely roamed over Germany.

Prof. Adam Tooze says that the biggest mistake of the British in WW2 was not concentrating Bomber Command on the Rhur, as the coal mines, heavy manufacturing and steel was all concentrated there. They can disperse manufacturing as much as they like, without the materials they cannot do anything. Also into 1944 Bomber Command and the USAAF moved bombing away from industry to strategic targets to assist the landings and the fighting after. That is why manufacturing rose in Germany.

From June 1944 onwards the RAF used Tallboy and later Grand Slam earthquake bombs on strategic infrastructure targets. One Tallboy went through a hill on France, exploded and took down the rail tunnel beneath the hill preventing rail supplies getting to Normandy. The tunnel these days has nice large vent shaft through it. The 1945 German monthly production figures were dire once Bomber Command refocused on industry.

Churchill said the biggest mistake was diverting troops from the desert to assist Greece which allowed the Germans a foothold in the desert.

I go with Tooze. Bomber Command and the RNs blockade of Germany combined would have starved Germany out quite quickly.

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