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re: US Military Campaigns by Casualties
Posted on 9/12/22 at 12:03 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 9/12/22 at 12:03 pm to Darth_Vader
American casualty rates in WW2 were lower relative to other countries because of American doctrine and resources. America favored firepower over sheer numbers of troops. German soldiers called the American style of fighting "a rich man's way of war". Make contact; use artillery, airpower, and other support weapons (tanks, assault guns, etc) to neutralize the opposition. Other countries used combined arms, obviously, but not to the scale and lethality of the US.
Another factor that reduced American losses was the resources the US put in battlefield medicine and trauma facilities. Within days of the Normandy landings there were already small planes landing on the bluffs above Omaha and ferrying wounded troops back to England.
The US military in WW2 was simply the best equipped, best fed and best cared for the world had ever seen. All those things lent itself to improved survivability rates.
Another factor that reduced American losses was the resources the US put in battlefield medicine and trauma facilities. Within days of the Normandy landings there were already small planes landing on the bluffs above Omaha and ferrying wounded troops back to England.
The US military in WW2 was simply the best equipped, best fed and best cared for the world had ever seen. All those things lent itself to improved survivability rates.
Posted on 9/12/22 at 12:11 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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The US military in WW2 was simply the best equipped, best fed and best cared for the world had ever seen. All those things lent itself to improved survivability rates.
The allies also had a shite ton of oil. Germany effectively ran out of oil to power their blitzkrieg and resorted to synthetically creating oil from coal
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Wartime Needs Spur Interest in Coal-to-Oil Processes
In 1944 General George S. Patton's Third Army was racing across southern France. In his haste to be the first U.S. commander to cross into Germany, however, Patton overextended his supply lines. His armored columns ground to a dead stop. Faced the choice of waiting until he could be resupplied or draining the fuel of captured German vehicles, Patton chose the latter. His tanks and armored personnel carriers continued to steamroll toward Germany, powered by the German's own ersatz gasoline – synthetic fuel manufactured from coal.
The leaders of World War II, on both sides, knew that an army's lifeblood was petroleum. Ironically, before the War, experts had scoffed at Adolph Hitler's idea that he could conquer the world largely because Germany had almost no indigenous supplies of petroleum. Hitler, however, had begun assembling a large industrial complex to manufacture synthetic petroleum from Germany's abundant coal supplies.
When Allied bombing of the German synfuels plants began taking its toll in late 1944 and early 1945, the entire Nazi war machine began grinding to a halt. More than 92 percent of Germany's aviation gasoline and half its total petroleum during World War II had come from synthetic fuel plants. At its peak in early 1944, the German synfuels effort produced more than 124,000 barrels per day from 25 plants. In February 1945, one month after Allied forces turned back the Hitler's troops at the Battle of the Bulge, German production of synthetic aviation gasoline amounted to just a thousand tons – one half of one percent of the level of the first four months of 1944. None was to be produced afterwards. Lack of petrol meant the end of the war and the end of the Third Reich.
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