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Which one would you say was the toughest on men and material?
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Still prefer that weather to -20 no trees to stop the wind as it comes over the steppes. On a side note I've been trying to find out what the temp was in the Battle of the Bulge and from what i can see it wasn't at all that cold like the Eastern front or the Choisin Resovoir
Folks I could tell you first hand. I worked on aircraft in the extreme heat and humidity - Okinawa, Thailand (2 times once during the rainy season), Mojave Airport (the 2nd hottest place on earth) and Bermuda Dunes (The hottest place on earth) Botswana (I was there in the "winter, it was pretty mild) and in the bitter cold (here in Colorado, PEI, Winnipeg and in the Sierra Nevadas) and although my stints were relatively short and I was in a civilian peacetime atmosphere, the cold by far is the worse to work on aircraft in, especially if you're trouble shooting something that requires you to be outside next to the aircraft while its turning.
The cold could be brutal.... but its nothing compared to being tormented by hordes of disease carrying insects, and parasites in your gut.
I think I'd take malaria over frostbite...
CBI, because of the climatic effects on the men and material, its being then end of a very long logistics tail, and it not being in the public eye.
The cold could be brutal.... but its nothing compared to being tormented by hordes of disease carrying insects, and parasites in your gut.