Well that is incomprehensibly stupid! If you're going to publicly flog women who you are pretty certain slept with German soldiers, but get all bent out of shape and offended by the destruction of the actual weapons of war that absolutely were being used by the Axis against Britain ... eh, nevermind. I'm likely to say something that might offend someone from France.Charge_7 said:Ah but from what I remember when I was in Germany in the '70s the French did not see it as "toys of Vichy France". They saw it as the French Navy - which weren't toys as they included several battleships and heavy cruisers. There were still bad feelings at that time but it's been another 30 years since then now and I wonder whether the feelings are gone now or not. Perhaps still there but maybe only with the older generation.
True, and keep all the subcommanders in line. Then again, Yamamoto did much the same with Japan.c/LCDR said:I voted for Nimitz, strictly because he had to deal with not only actual strategy and tactics on a large scale, but he had to manage all of the little bits and pieces (logistics, crews, ships, production and manufacturing, etc.) that have to come together to acheive a successful war effort.
In all honesty, do you think they could have actually won that war? The USA massively outproduced then in everything. Hey, I'm American and I'm glad we won, but with the numbers we had on production, how could we have actually lost??c/LCDR said:Right, but Japan lost. :lol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II#Naval_shipsWikipedia said:Military production during World War II
Naval ships
Aircraft carriers
1. United States = 141
2. Japan = 16
3. United Kingdom = 14
Battleships
1. United States = 8
2. United Kingdom = 5
3. Italy = 3
4. Japan = 2
Cruisers
1. United States = 48
2. United Kingdom = 32
3. Japan = 9
4. Italy = 6
5. Soviet Union = 2
Destroyers
1. United States = 349
2. United Kingdom = 240
3. Japan = 63
4. Soviet Union = 25
5. Germany = 17
6. Italy = 6
Submarines
1. Germany = 1,141
2. United States = 203
3. Japan = 167
4. United Kingdom = 167
5. Soviet Union = 52
6. Italy = 28
Right, to a degree. The USA was already pretty much guaranteed to run Japan into the ground in terms of production. The Japanese had a lot less to work with accross the board. Nimitz did not cause the USA to be economically superior by such a gigantic margin. They already were. Yamamoto had many other things to work against that Nimitz did not.c/LCDR said:That's the whole point. Didn't we say Nimitz (or his staff) had to handle all of the logistics of naval construction and manufacturing as well?
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