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  1. sillygoose

    Hitler lets Army Group North retreat on time

    Sure: https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Logistics2/USA-E-Logistics2-11.html https://history.army.mil/books/70-7_15.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_services_and_supply_in_the_Siegfried_Line_campaign http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,796674,00.html...
  2. sillygoose

    Hitler lets Army Group North retreat on time

    When you consider that both the British and US opted to maximize production over having maximal armies it makes total sense. The Soviets were effectively the army of the Allies, who used production in Britain and the US to supply them as best they could. The US alone sent enough weapons to...
  3. sillygoose

    Hitler lets Army Group North retreat on time

    Some one deemed medically unfit for military service: https://www.reference.com/world-view/4-f-mean-relation-military-9d201434fa11a9ec
  4. sillygoose

    Hitler lets Army Group North retreat on time

    If successful, even in the version of the plan Rundestedt and Model advised the Allies would lose an entire army group and several air commands and at least 800,000 men if not over 1 million who would be cut off from their supplies by the Ardennes thrust. Allied armies were extremely hungry and...
  5. sillygoose

    Hitler lets Army Group North retreat on time

    Given what a successful Ardennes offensive would mean, yes.
  6. sillygoose

    Hitler lets Army Group North retreat on time

    Again there are a lot of variables here. Could well be that the Iron Curtain is further east, could be the Normandy breakout with a less disastrous Eastern Front and weaker Red Army results in an Ardennes offensive that succeeds and results in a negotiated peace deal. Once you start making...
  7. sillygoose

    Hitler lets Army Group North retreat on time

    Yes, but since D-Day is succeeding ITTL what happened in autumn/winter is an open question.
  8. sillygoose

    Hitler lets Army Group North retreat on time

    Only if he wants to ruin production, since that cohort was already working, not being wasted in schools. Soviet manpower was largely tapped out by 1943, over 4 million replacements, the official ones, not the 'off the books' manpower, was mobilized from territories reconquered in 1943-45...
  9. sillygoose

    Hitler lets Army Group North retreat on time

    Depending on how it shakes out Romania would have stayed allied with Germany as the several panzer divisions that were stripped from AG-South Ukraine to assist North Ukraine would have stayed in place. Those divisions ensured the Soviets were defeated in the 'forgotten' Soviet first invasion of...
  10. sillygoose

    Hitler lets Army Group North retreat on time

    On January 1st 1944 Hitler agreed to let AG-North retreat from its positions around Leningrad to avoid the huge offensive that was coming on the 14th, but ultimately he changed his mind and forced them to stay in place, which ultimately resulted in over 90,000 unnecessary losses and the drop of...
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