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They won the air war over the nazis by determination
Bullshit!
One of Cricket's daddy's sayings was "You don't know what you don't know."
We
HELPED win the air war through sheer numbers due to seriously higher production capacity and available personnel.
The boys over there most definitely had serious balls to climb into the planes and face the flak and fighters, but "determination" had a much smaller part than production capacity. That "determination" wouldn't have done them much good if there weren't enough planes, tanks, and guns to keep them supplied.
A recent Vets Day program on The History Channel pointed out a very large contributing factor as one of the reasons Germany was defeated:
While America and Britain concentrated on
improving existing technology, Hitler, once aware that the tide was against the Nazis became quite profligate with money, spending it on technological innovation instead. And while much of that innovation has borne fruit today, very little of it was much help to the Nazi's agenda because it was a matter of "too little...too late" to do them any good. Much of the technology wasn't even nearly feasible because necessary materials had to be developed first. Even the designer of the theoretical "space bomber" only convinced Goehring to secure funding so he could keep working on a pet project he
knew would take several years to complete. Even had he completed it, the plane would not have performed as promised. In fact, the guy never even directly contributed to the German war effort. Not even in a production capacity.
Simple matter of attrition. While our capacity (production and manpower) kept increasing, the Nazi capacity steadily decreased. The outcome was quite predictable.
And while I thank you for commending the actions of our troops I also take minor exception to your portrayal of the Fallujah fighting as "American Way".
Many fine soldiers from several other countries fought and died with the same determination in Fallujah and other areas and deserve just as much credit even if the News Services choose to forget about them.
The only reason they are not there, or given the credit they deserve, is because their governments finally had the good sense to bring them home.
"the true soldiers' way" would have been more appropriate.
In the future, at least in regard to the sensitive issue of politics, please choose your words more carefully before posting.
Thank you.