Too funny! :-D
Most underrated WWII weapon
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What World War II weapon (infantry weapon, tank,plane, ship etc.) do you consider is underrated?
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The horse. Technically speaking not a weapon of course, but a vital logistic component during World War II, especially to Germany and the Soviet Union. Horses are often viewed as a relic from a different age of warfare, and while that may be true for modern armies of today, the WW2 situation was very different.
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Lies.
As truth was the first casualty of war. Half of every battle was lying.
Consider the battle of the atlantic for just a moment and maintaining the -lie- that you haven’t broken the german code, means letting innocent merchant ships get sunk.
Fake units (BOTB), fake people (The Ultra Secret), fake broadcasts(German DOW on Poland), fake/false-flag attacks (Russia on itself against Finland).
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On the Western Front: radar. It’s not a weapon that goes bang and destroys something, and it emits beams that aren’t even visible, but without it Britain would not have survived and could not have been used as a launching platform to liberate western Europe. Radar was the foundation of the RAF’s victory in the Battle of Britain, since it allowed the RAF to use its limited resources as efficiently as possible. Centimetric radar (once it came into widespread use) later became a crucial factor in the Allied victory the Battle of the Atlantic, since it allowed surfaced U-boats to be detected at night; prior to that, U-boats operating on the surface were hard to spot visually and were even harder to spot by active ASDIC/sonar (which only works against submerged targets), nor could they be picked up my early long-wavelength radar sets.
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The Landing Craft.
No one appreciated them -except- the Japanese, until the war broke out.
I remember reading about some American Colonel, who was studying japanese deployment of these in the late 30’s. The files he sent to the pentagon were archived under “The work of some nut in china”.
Only later to be pulled out, broken down, and developed into mainstream landing craft. Which made it possible for the allies to land in Fortress Europe a few years later.
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@Herr:
The horse. Technically speaking not a weapon of course, but a vital logistic component during World War II, especially to Germany and the Soviet Union. Horses are often viewed as a relic from a different age of warfare, and while that may be true for modern armies of today, the WW2 situation was very different.
Dude, love the answer. Didn’t see that coming.
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since I like things that go bang I’m gonna say the panzerfaust
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Couple ideas:
2.5 ton truck
Liberty Ships
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Boots
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The flame thrower! Saved a lot of Marine’s lives.
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Prophylaxis kits!
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Ha Ha Ha!
that is some funny shit:)
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Do not have any ideas of my own, but like Landing Craft, mentioned by Garg.
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Prophylaxis kits!
At one time in the Italian Campaign somtime like 40% of the American Troops suffered from some from of STD.
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Are you suggesting Italian women were loose?
Just so you know my grandmother(a happy Fascist) never fraternised with the enemy.
She was country folk. Must have been the city dwelling Communist sympathisers!As an aside, Italian men think English girls easy.
Maybe it is because Italian men do not like to use rubber and the English are all on the pill. -
id say trains, or the russian prewar army :)
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The general infantry soldier is sometimes forgotten in World War Two with the love of tanks and planes. The Soviet Infantry may be the most underrated of all infantry in the war. These men were strengthened by the hardships of living in Stalin’s Russia. Even in the great German encirclements of 1941 pockets of Russian soldiers put up a fight that the Germans had yet to have experienced in the battles in the West.
In terms of machines I believe the Savoya-Marchetti 79 is an underrated bomber.
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In terms of machines I believe the Savoya-Marchetti 79 is an underrated bomber.
It was a great Torpedo Bomber and we are lucky to have its sculpt.
There were not many three engined planes in WW2. I suppose the most famous is the JU52. -
The most underrated fighter in WWII was the F4F Wildcat. It did the job in the early days in the Pacific. Then in the later years in the battle of the Atlantic it perfomed a role in convoy escort. Where would we have been without it?
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The Russian army knive