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I am not sure what the last bullet point is supposed to mean. Greece, Crete, the Channel Islands and North Africa were not an extension of Germany's borders.
Germany did not venture into the Far East. All expansion/fighting was on Axis borders.
The US effectively only made one tank in numbers, the Sherman, then a few Stuarts with a few very small light tanks. The Soviets made a number of tanks: KV1, T-34, IS2.
Self propelled guns are not tanks.
The Soviet lines were north to south with them having only a western front. The western front had northern and southern sections.
The FW-200 (Condor) was a 4 engined airliner used temporarily in a bombing role. From the middle of 1941 Condors were not used in the attacking role. It was not a dedicated designed bomber.
The Soviets were only fighting on one front, but - they were fighting 3/4 of the German Army. When Montgomery and the rest of the Allied Forces came ashore in Normandy on D Day, there were 59 German divisions in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and 157 in the Soviet Union.
- The He 177 was in practical terms a 4-engine bomber, as it had 2-welded together engines x2 but with two propellers.
A V engine can also be described as two joined engines. The Triumph slant 4 car engine, also used in SAABs, was used in a V-8 engine using two of them, that is not two engines. The British Napier engine was two cranks in one block, again not two engines. A 4-engined bomber is four engines turning four props. The He-177s problems were only rectified as the war was ending - engines would burst into flames in flight.
Germany did not venture into the Far East. All expansion/fighting was on Axis borders.
The US effectively only made one tank in numbers, the Sherman, then a few Stuarts with a few very small light tanks. The Soviets made a number of tanks: KV1, T-34, IS2.
Self propelled guns are not tanks.
The Soviet lines were north to south with them having only a western front. The western front had northern and southern sections.
The FW-200 (Condor) was a 4 engined airliner used temporarily in a bombing role. From the middle of 1941 Condors were not used in the attacking role. It was not a dedicated designed bomber.
Well they did on a very limited basis with submarines. There was a repair base in Singapore utilizing the old Royal Navy facilities and another in Penang Malaya. Way back in the 60's when I was stationed in Singapore I heard stories from a much older Eurasian women about how the Japanese held social events for the U boat men while ashore. Didn't believe it until I looked it up and did some research.
Well they did on a very limited basis with submarines. There was a repair base in Singapore utilizing the old Royal Navy facilities and another in Penang Malaya. Way back in the 60's when I was stationed in Singapore I heard stories from a much older Eurasian women about how the Japanese held social events for the U boat men while ashore. Didn't believe it until I looked it up and did some research.
They did operate a number of U-Boats from Penang. No German or Italian ground troops were in the Far East.
Germany developed the V1 and V2 rocket weapons which ushered in a new approach to warfare. German rocket scientists were an important "war prize" for the allies.
For the Americans maybe. The British didn't think too much of them.
the shift to turretless armored vehicles was a deliberate policy.
An economic policy, as most were based on a cheap Panzer III chassis', to get a powerful gun quickly to locations. It was not a military policy, as they wanted proper tanks.
Germany developed the V1 and V2 rocket weapons which ushered in a new approach to warfare. German rocket scientists were an important "war prize" for the allies.
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For the Americans maybe. The British didn't think too much of them.
Yet again, you're wrong. Completely and totally wrong. No surprise.
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Ok. I will relegate the UK cruiser tanks to the tankette role, and the Churchill series to moving casemates.
Then Germany produced more tanks than the UK.
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A V engine can also be described as two joined engines. The Triumph slant 4 car engine, also used in SAABs, was used in a V-8 engine using two of them, that is not two engines. The British Napier engine was two cranks in one block, again not two engines. A 4-engined bomber is four engines turning four props. The He-177s problems were only rectified as the war was ending - engines would burst into flames in flight.
The powerplants of the He 177 weren't V engines. They were four DB 605 engines working together with two propellers which had had more power combined than the four Rolls-Royce XX engines used on Lancasters. The He 177 was also at least 60 mph faster than the Lanc or B-17
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The FW-200 (Condor) was a 4 engined airliner used temporarily in a bombing role. From the middle of 1941 Condors were not used in the attacking role. It was not a dedicated designed bomber.
Well, duh. You like to change classifications. Good luck then.
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