Rosi

That really is a thought-provoking post. I did not know the modern world owed so much to Germay military-wise. Could you state your sources please, I'd like to read up on it. Thanks.

Israle-Palestine tussle is a hopeless one, isn' it? That's what I think anyway.

Heidi XX

fledse- Thanks yes we germans do have great technolghy back then,but to my shock and horror,the Jet engines were actually invented by the British.
germans just built the body to go with it!

Mmmm...I wonder what other german weapons were invented by the britsh? it makes me wonder LOL.

germany did have high tech weapons during ww2,but the brits invented the jet engine,us germans built the body!
You could even say it was a joint invention by the british and germans lol.

fledse

O.K, I am assuming you also know German tanks are very developed, so for this source, you just need to find German tanks in wiki if my assumption is wrong. (Otherwise, why does everyone mostly think German tanks when they hear WW2 about Germany?)

(the very 1st German howitzer).
And self-propelled howitzer was used by most major power in WW2, but German used it in massive amounts and took advantage of it as they went through operation of Barbarrosa.

Since self-propelled howitzer provides fast mobility, it protect our army from enemy, and attacks enemy army.

And in microscopic structure, U.S. and Allies launched " ,"which is to capture Nazi science to learn German's advanced science in order to achieve upper hand against Soviet Union.

U.S. authorities mainly examined and captured Rocketry and aeronautic scientists while Soviet union also did the similar operation and captured Army-related scientists.


Jet Engine aircraf. (video: )

If the fighter was produced 1 years ago (1943), the Allies would have been lots of trobules. It was introduced in 1944, when German Hauftbaher(air force) could not even maintain German mainland.
In air superiority, German air force could not fly the jet engine fighter.

For aircraft, the most critical moment is when they take off, and since the allies aircraft was everywhere and 24 hours in German main air port, even though German hauftbaher had the fighter, the fighter was not yet full condition, and it was just peace of cake for allies to crack down this fascinating German aircraft.


V-1 and V-2 Rockets.
Everyone interested in history probably heard it, which is the 1st man made rockets. At the date, it was called "flying bomb."

So, German is the first one, who thought it would be fascinating to destroy enemy without pilots' sacrifice, and that is the primary reason they wanted to do.

One Nazi Scientists was captured by U.S., and sent to U.S., whose name is
Later, he was shaking hands with pres. John.F.Kennedy as a cheif director of NASA after NASA succesfully launched satelite into the orbit.

From NASA's quote, "without doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history. His crowning achievement ... was to lead the development of the

Saturn V

Saturn_V

booster rocket that helped land the first men on the

Moon

Moon

in July 1969."

So, without former Nazi scientists, Americans might have lots of time to win the space race against Soviet, which I think Soviet was also capturing Nazi rocketry sceintists somewhere during WW2, and used them when Russians first launched satellite.

As you may know, satelite technology is just another face of ICBM like nuclear energy can be used as bomb or power plants.

And for others such as Blitzberg was great army doctrines at the date, and is being taught to every military school in the world as the most basic doctrine.

Blitzberg, to us who are living in the 21st century, is what the war should be, but at the time, it was not.
With Close Air Support (CAS), airforce confuse enemy and prevent them from contacting each other well, during which armored vehicles fastly break the defense lines. Following that, infantry is moving, and then surround the enemy from behind or flank side.
Then it is only piece of cakes to annihilate the enemy.
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Hopely this one provides you sources.

fledse

I think I forgot mentioning "the operation of Paper Clip."
Pres. Truman said those scientists who positively helped Nazi Regime and Hitler should be excluded in recruitment, but U.S. Defense Department did not wanna do so, for fear of being lost by the Soviet, who was also recruting Nazi scientists.

U.S. Defense Department mostly eradicated profiles that Nazi scientists had done during the WW2, and gave them new profiles that were of no trobles in terms of what the Operation of Paper Clip says.

I think it is worse to be lost every Nazi good scientists to Soviet than to falsely write up new profile and to bring these sceintists to U.S.

fledse

Yes, you are absolutely right, I think I was screwed up there.
But, it is of truth that German used the jet fighter as the operational fighter. It was first invented by British, but Germans were the first to deploy it to the battlefields while the allies were not.

With jet engine, they had to design new fighter body, armor and weapon system, and etc.
British invented it, but failed to develop it further in military needs, wherease German did anyhow.

It will give some evidences.

diddyriddick

Um...No. The ME163 was not a Jet, it was a rocket. Additionally, the ME262 was operational in April 1944, and the Komet not for another month. As revolutionary as it was, the Komet was not nearly as significant a weapon as the 262 because it was never produced in significant enough numbers to make an impact.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163/units.htm
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/...ft/p/me262.htm

Moreover, the British and Germans developed their own unique jet engine designs independently and concurrently. The Germans didn't just copy a British design.

http://inventors.about.com/library/i...ljetengine.htm

fledse

Right, strictly speaking rockery engine is not jet engine, but in general, rocket engine is one of the two general types of jet engines. (one is rocket, another turbo engine.)
It is probably because rocketry engine is too fast to be categorized into "propelled engine."

Waleis

btw, President Wilson did not support punishing Germany for its role in WWI, the French and British placed the restrictions on the German military.

fledse

That's probably because French and British were suffered a lot than Americans. Their living houses were destroyed, loved family were wounded, and no jobs for victorious French and British soldiers.

For Americans, it would be impractical to be attack by Germans again in the future, but for British and French, they would be main target by Germans in the future, which really did in Hitler's days.

Waleis

In my earlier post I just wanted to clarify america's position on the matter of resolving the end of WWI. but that's a very good point you're making fledse, and I agree completely.