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Don't want to be picky, but...
Wasn't it the other way around? Russkies did have a lot of hardware, most of it being comparable or better then German have had. It was idiotic strategy that put 10 000* planes (and other stuff) at silver plate for Germans. Russkies have lost 75% of their military hardware in 1941, so anything they could get was seen a blessing.
*out of some 15 thousands in the inventory.
Could very well be, it was on this forum.
Now I'd really like to see that!
Now I'd really like to see that!
I don't know how many of you have been in former Soviet countries, but I've been told straight to my face that the British sat around drinking tea, and the Americans chewing bubble gum while the Soviets did all the fighting. Also told that the UK US sent nothing to the USSR until 1944, when we already knew they would win.
This is the kind of BS that was taught in their schools. Gets my hackles up, considering that Mum's uncle was KIA in the war, and he escorted Murmansk convoys in 1941.
"NOT QUITE" Make that clear!And check who is writing. Posts from fly boy are not quite as authoritative as FLYBOYJ
I was taking pictures of the I-16 at an air museum and was told by a couple of older American guys that the Americans won the air war and that the Russians didn't do anything at all and that "we" did all the work for them. Kind of gets my hackles up considering I've met some Soviet pilots who were wounded in the line of duty, some of whom also had their families killed by the Germans. So, it's a two-way street.
"NOT QUITE" Make that clear!
The Russians certainly did a great deal but then again the were they not a little at fault for the diasaster they faced , they invaded Poland and the Baltic nations tried having a go at Finland and signed the non Agression Pact with the GermansI was taking pictures of the I-16 at an air museum and was told by a couple of older American guys that the Americans won the air war and that the Russians didn't do anything at all and that "we" did all the work for them. Kind of gets my hackles up considering I've met some Soviet pilots who were wounded in the line of duty, some of whom also had their families killed by the Germans. So, it's a two-way street.
The Russians certainly did a great deal but then again the were they not a little at fault for the diasaster they faced , they invaded Poland and the Baltic nations tried having a go at Finland and signed the non Agression Pact with the Germans
The Soviet Union of that era was a nasty piece of work remember they were no better then the Nazis maybe worse as they even starved how many of their own people in the Ukraine 6 7 8 million . God forbid we remember KatynYes, and the British and the French "had it coming" because they appeased the Germans, let them reoccupy the Sudetenland and the Rhineland, and annex several small central European countries...
The Soviet Union of that era was a nasty piece of work remember they were no better then the Nazis maybe worse as they even starved how many of their own people in the Ukraine 6 7 8 million . God forbid we remember Katyn
Yeah doubtful especially since I don't recall any units first equipped with P-39's then P-40's... Opinions did differ, and the P-40 was the more popular in USAAF in general, no question about that.I read a story once about I think USAAF pilots deliberatly sabotaging their own P-39s to be re-equipped with P-40s,...
Opinions differ.
The stall was something to do with the balance in the a/c with the prop shaft running through the a/c and the engine behind the pilot. It was a great training a/c except for the unrecoverable stall.
If it wasn't for the Soviets there could not have been a Luftwaffe, thus no aggression from Germany at all.
*stands back and waits*
If it wasn't for the Soviets there could not have been a Luftwaffe, thus no aggression from Germany at all.
*stands back and waits*