D-Day 6.6.44 Part 1/5

Dramatised documentary, based on the experiences of the soldiers who landed on the Normandy coast of France for Operation Overlord, the D-Day Landings on the 6th June 1944 which were instrumental in bringing to an end the Second World War in Europe.

This is the original BBC version.

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[thewardiam]

Stupid BBC, IKE is from Kansas not Texas.

[Anders2185]

@thewardiam IKE was born in Texas

[elrjames777]

@KrackowKid "like fuck they did": lend lease to USSR =13k Tanks, 380k Trucks, 2.5k Carriers, 35k Motorcycles, 51k Jeeps, 9k Tractors, 21k Aircraft, 2k Locomotives, 11k Railway Cars, 5k Anti-tank Guns, 8k Anti-Aircraft Guns, 136k Machine Pistols, 40k Radios, 380k Field Telephones, 2m km Telephone Cable, 15m pairs Boots, 53m squ ms Wool, 90m Squ ms Cotton, 49k tons Leather, 5m tons Food. These categories are not exhaustive and supplied from 1941 to 1945: not merely "a brief period" :-)

[Anders2185]

@elrjames777 4 million tons of supplies is not exactly brief is it. Also how many brave merchant navy lives did the 74 Arctic convoys cost to get these supplies to the Red Army.

[jackle910]

@thewardiam ike was born in Texas 1890, then move to Kansas in 1892.

[elrjames777]

@KrackowKid I realize what you are getting at, and your question certainly introduces a worthwhile, if tendentious, consideration with which I probably would not unduly argue. However, this is an entirely separate issue from the simple factual correction I was addressing to the only fallacious and politically bias assertions set out in your original post: "like fuck they did" (no: lend lease was considerable) and "a brief period of 12 months" (no: it lasted from 1941 to 1945) :-)

[KrackowKid]

@elrjames777 Does it say how many men they supplied ? :)

[elrjames777]

@KrackowKid The info given was from Walter Scott Dunn "The Soviet Economy and the Red Army 1930 to 1945": OK he is American, but also rather an authority on the topic, and the figures are supported by Soviet documents summarizing the deliveries. Dunn does, also, give a 1941 / 45 figure of 109k USSR manufactured AFV's as against 42k German ones. I suppose if I must draw a conclusion, it would be that the 10% extra lend lease AFV's could have been the margin of victory in many battles.

[KrackowKid]

@elrjames777 Google "Soviet combat vehicle production during World War II" That's all I have to say to you. You must have gotten all those staistics out of a U.S History book. They tend to distort things a little.

[KrackowKid]

@0269ish They supplied some equipment and for a period but when Russia got into its stride and moved its factories to the urals, it was catering for all its own.

[KrackowKid]

@0269ish Like fuck they did lad. You need to read about Russian War production during WW2. Russia set up their factories out of reach of German bombers beyond the Urals mountains. By 1943, Russia were turning out 1,300 T34 tanks a month and 1,000 planes a month. That production was in the Industrial factories in the Urals. There was a brief period of 12 months where the Americans supplied Russia until they were able to move their factories beyond the reach of German bombers