Why did the french army get beaten so quickly? Even if germany had better equipment, the french should of put up more of a fight. It's almost as if they chose to let the nazis conquer them instead of putting up any real resistance.
The Titanic was a great ship untill it sank on its 1st voyage.:shock:the French Military in WW2 generally performed extremely well with the exception of the German invasion of France where they were poorly led and using outmoded tactics/thinking for the time.
mmarsh, after they flanked them, why couldn't the french turn around and then attack he germans?
There is also one thing I have seen mentioned elsewhere that one of the biggest problems in the defence of France was the British plan to move the BEF into Belgium which effectively created separation between the British and French forces that killed any chance of a mobile defence.
Most the French defence budget had gone itno static defence, they did not have a modern Airforce and they only had six modern single seater fighter aircraft, that is why when Dowding refused to commit any further fighters to France as our Airforce would not be able to hold the German Airforce and this what caused the big rift between France and England. Now of course Dowding was right to save the few fighters he had left for the Battle of Britain
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