• In reality there were some German planes involved in D day.
    Is there any provision for this in this game?


  • @Eisenhower said in axis planes involved in d-day:

    In reality there were some German planes involved in D day.
    Is there any provision for this in this game?

    There is no provision for German aircraft in A&A D-Day. This reflects the air superiority held by the Western Allies in 1944.

    As the UK’s Imperial War Museum put it: “Germany’s air force and navy could do little to resist invasion. The Luftwaffe had withdrawn nearly all its fighters to counter American daylight bombing operations over Germany. The Navy’s warships had been hounded to destruction or were bottled up in ports. Its U-boats would have an almost impossible job penetrating the belt of Allied naval and air defences. The defence of ‘Fortress Europe’ would therefore fall squarely onto the shoulders of the army.” (source)

    -Midnight_Reaper


  • Hitler was the classic insane evil man…
    So stupid to think he could make war with everyone and win.
    The allies bombed the crap out of Germany till every german civilian despised their great leader…


  • The allied planes were pained with bold white stripes on them so that we would not shoot our own planes down.


  • @eisenhower I’m sorry but I would have to disagree with you in the hitler could have never won part. Germany was in a good position Untill early 1943 and even then if they won at the battle of Kursk which was possible, Then that would have halted the soviets for a good five months, which would have allowed for hitlers plan of entrenchment in the Soviet front to Carry out. This would allow for hitler to possibly sue for peace with the soviets since the conflict would have lasted much much longer. And for the western front it could have been possible for hitlers army to not be tricked into thinking that the landing was going to happen somewhere else thus allowing for the units to be evenly spread out throughout the coast. And d day was almost a fail due to the weather. And if hitlers army generals in Normandy were not drunk on the night of a the 6th then They would have been able to catch on to the invasion a lot faster. But to simplify it, it was just dumb mistakes that was the downfall of Germany.

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    @capitolwasteland I disagree and i’m not sorry :)

    Once he attacked Russia, it was over


  • @barnee
    Germany was up against the massive industrial capacity of the USA. Just photos of germany from after ww2 show that the USA destroyed Germany. No matter what germany did theor insustrial capacity was demolished and the USA could keep producing more bombers. Germany would even run out of bullets and could not even fight on the ground.

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    @eisenhower there was a story about a German General talking to his mistress after hitler invaded Russia. She said "where is Russia exactly ? "

    So he pulled a map out and said “This is Russia” and she said " Where is Germany ? " and he said “Here” she said “This little tiny spot ? " He said " Yes” she said "Has the Fuhrer seen this map ? "

    :grin:

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    @barnee said in axis planes involved in d-day:

    So he pulled a map out and said “This is Russia” and she said " Where is Germany ? " and he said “Here” she said “This little tiny spot ? " He said " Yes” she said "Has the Fuhrer seen this map ? "

    Cute story.


  • Almost nobody, beside maybe Communists, expected the Soviet Union to be so productive, especially considering Zarist Russia arguably generally underperformed on expectations, in the previous war.

    To this day, after almost a century of research, how much the Soviet Union was productive, for example by estimating the ratio of the per-capita GDP of the Soviet Union to the United States of America, is highly contentious a matter. Imagine in 1941: nobody outside the Soviet Union (and hardly anyone inside) had any reliable idea on what was actually going on there, in term of economic and military potential.

  • 2023 '22 '21 '20 '19 '18

    @cernel yea probably helter skelter
    I read in “Soldat” where the Germans were surprised and were happy Patton wasn’t in charge for the Anzio landings.

    Idk but the USA kinda sucked in Italy. Was a WWI mode somewhat

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