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Originally Posted by cyberxxx
However we were talking about Berlin. This is why I asked to show the numbers. Forget about the US loses in battles against Japan (that's a different story), try to count how many forces the States had in Europe and how many German forces were defending Berlin.
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The passage I highlighted in yellow DOES pertain to US forces in Europe, not in the Pacific.
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Originally Posted by cyberxxx
Now you should understand why I was laughing on the guy who said that Russians took Berlin just because the USA allowed it. That's really funny, isn't it?  |
Not really. Because my friend, the US as I said earlier didn't go it alone. Great Britain also had a huge force in Europe at the time, as did Canada. There were sizeable troop contributions from several other countries as well. The combined Allied force was quite massive. Not as large as what Russia's had grown to at the time, but still massive enough to, had the decision been made, take Berlin ahead of the Russians.
Again, these discussions and the race for Berlin and Eisenhower decided against it etc is well documented. One document I just read recently said that it simply wasn't worth the effort to take Berlin ahead of the Russians because we'd be fighting for land that would later have to be turned over to Russia anyway.
There's a lot on the web about this, by all means go read it. It's really quite fascinating, to me anyway.