Posts made by Zhukov_2003

Americans and their guns. :roll:

The 5,56 is better for many reasons, first of which is ammo capacity. A soldier can carry many more rounds of 5.56 ammo than he can 7.62.

Secondly, the 5.56 is more likely to kill some one due to the fact that it tumbles when it enters the body, making the wound much more gruesome.

Hmm, the Cold War and the build up of thousands of nuclear weapons doesn’t sound like a positive effect to me.

Mussolini didn’t mess hitler up that much

So tieing down very usefull infantry and panzer divisions wasn’t that big of a deal? Hitler should have stopped all communication with Mussolini after Italy’s big “victory” in Ethopia.

It still amazes me how a Italian force of over 500,000 men could not manage to capture the British held Africa against a force a fraction of their own.

If Hitler hadn’t invaded the Balkans, then the Danube nations (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) would probably not have allied themselves with Germany, causing Germany to be short of “cannon fodder”. Greece is a different story, the Italians invaded first without even telling Hitler. The Greek put up a strong fight and held up the Italians until, once again, Hitler came to the rescue of his Italian counterpart.

Anyways, the most devasting event of the Nazi regime? Hmmm….How about invading Poland.

Right MR. Hitler fought the war on his strategic map. Where he saw a strong fully equipped division, there was actually a force 1/4 of its usual size, underequipped and underarmed.

The Panzer Lehr Divison, one of the most elite german divisions, after 50 days of fighting in Normandy, was reduced to 2,200men and 45 servicable tanks, it was ordered to hold a 3 mile stretch of land. It did not hold for long, but of course to Hitler it was a full strength division so he ordered a counter attack which destroyed pretty much what ever was left of the division.

Just an example of Hitlers blind ignorance.

Sherman28- Not unless we combine into ZHUKMAN28!!! 8) Then we would have a total of something like 580 posts.

P.S. I would have use Sherkov instead of Zhukman but say the first one real quick. :D

There are a couple of topics already like this but oh well,

Of course his decision to invade russia wasn’t smart, Germany lost, and if you lose, you obviously messed up somewhere.

First of all, I don’t mean any offence so take it easy.
Secondly, I could put anyone in that example, but I choose you because we were talking about you. OK? :D

I really don’t think people will remember you for your post count, only if you post some interesting stuff or put in some good input now and then. Wouldn’t you rather have someone say “Hey that MuthaRussia dude knows his stuff” or “Jesus, not another MuthatRussia poll!” :wink:

Also, the Germans had 50 divisions committed to counter D-Day

Hmm…I guess thats would explain how less than 10,000 allied soldiers secured a beach head on France facing a 50 division strong army. :D Germany had more like 1-2 divisions facing the allies on D-Day.

When did this contest start? So, only one person thinks I can get 250 first eh?

Chindit wrote

well, even though Zhukov_2003 has somewhat stolen my thunder I will (very graciously) respond to the original request and fill in the tiny gap Z-2003 has left me.

Sorry about that Chindit.

I agree it was the only thing they could have done to make Japan surrender. It was estimated that if the US was to invade Japan, it would cost anywhere from 500,000 to a million men. I don’t really agree with their targets though, Hiroshima and Nagasaki had very little strategic value to the Japanese, so when the US did bomb these cities it was nothing but terror bombing.

El Jefe wrote

Pats didn’t kick anyone’s bu*t!

They didn’t do that good of a job, but they win the Superbowl, so they must of done something right. Jeez!:roll:

Heard on the News that JJ fessed up. It was planned… just not that much titty

Of course it was planned! What happened to the Busweiser frogs???

Imagined it? :D She looks too much like Micheal, so seeing her hooter would be weird…

I’m watching the game right now and the score is Car-22 Pats-21

I’m a patriot fan so I think they are still gonna kick some a**! :D

Not even close. :D Check out the “Existance of God” forum.

Sorry but I forgot to put my opinion on the “Most Import Russian Battle”. That would have to be Kursk. This and Stalingrad broke the back of the German Army. Although even after Stalingrad the Germans put up some stiff resistance but after Kursk, the German Army was never the same. If the Germans had succeded in taking Kursk, this would have eliminated close to 1.5 million russian soldiers, allowing the Germans to have the inititave again.

The Germans had lost something like 40,000 men and 600 tanks. The russians lost just as many and probaly many more but they still had uncommitted reserves.

I know the battle Chindit is talking about, but it was in 1939. The Japanese attacked the Russians and lost something like 20,000 men in the attack. After this attack, russia and japan had a non-agression treaty until 1945 when russia attack japanese forces in manchuria. Although, the non-agression treaty, not the battle, helped Russia. This allowed Zhukov and a horde of exprienced soldiers to help the losing war on the Eastern Front.