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    • Originally posted by gunnut View Post
      This brings up another question. How did the western allies supply their troops on the western front? There must be 2 million men between the US, UK, Canada, France, and others, from Rome to Bavaria to Antwerp. Western troops were more "spoiled" and they had to have their smokes and candy bars so that would add to the 3 lb per person allowance. How were these men supplied?
      Fewer divisions, more trucks, more and better roads across France, closer to the point of supply (ports) and a narrower frontage.I think in France at its peak the Allies had just over a million men, considerably fewer in Italy. These peaks were achieved after the destruction of the Luftwaffe, the liberation of the Balkans and the opening of Antwerp. The Soviets have more than twice the men and considerably less than half the transport capacity all types from trucks to trains to road capacity.

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      • With the end of the war in Italy, massive amounts of supplies could be diverted north...

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        • Originally posted by jlvfr View Post
          With the end of the war in Italy, massive amounts of supplies could be diverted north...
          It also opens up Italy as a shipping point from the US that is well and truly outside the range of Soviet aircraft. It completely exposes the Southern flank of the Red Army (the Brits are already in the Balkans), means the Allies can support Turkey in safety and sortie into the black sea where the ancient Soviet fleet will be dead meat.

          other options from the South include direct support of Iraq/Iran from Turkey,a direct ground border with the Soviet Union from Turkey and using Turkey as a new Great Britain/China super sized airbase to reach deep into the USSR.

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          • No one said supplying the Allied Armies was easy, but as others have pointed out, they have got trucks, ships and heavy transport aircrafts like no other. Allied engineering capability was also far greater than the Red Army's and IIRC successfully repaired the railroads and bridges in France for military purposes.
            All those who are merciful with the cruel will come to be cruel to the merciful.
            -Talmud Kohelet Rabbah, 7:16.

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