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Originally Posted by Broncazonk
I am bringing this topic around again to see if there is any movement in finding "the answer"--or at least a better answer.
For whatever reason, I believe correcting the record is important--the history is cherished by young and old literally all over the world--and the history is wrong. (The members of this forum know the "truth" about the official list: Hartmann 352, Barkhorn 301, etc, but the vast majority do not.)
What will it take? A collaboration of the experts on this forum? Funding by an interested benefactor? A publisher willing to be involved?
A problem--THE problem--I think, is Hartmann. His claims were/are sooo unsupportable AND we are at a loss for an explanation as to why. Correcting the record means addressing Hartmann (and the other over-claimers) but this MUST be done in a sensitive and delicate way. (But, what that sensitive, delicate way is, I have no idea, because I can't come up with an explanation that doesn't involve outright fraud.
Still, it must be done...somehow.
Bronc
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In hindsight again, does it it really matter? The end result was that the LW, and Germany, were defeated. Ultimately, once Germany decided to invade the SU, with it's resource/industrial potential, and then declared war on the U.S. with it's resources, they were toast. In a war of attrition, they could never hope to match the combined industrial capacity, the numbers of troops available to be put in the field and resources of the Allied nations. They blew their chance when they couldn't subjugate the British Isles. Boiled down to its simplest factors, Germany (and the Axis allies) could not sustain a war of attrition against the combined Allied nations. (The 30000 foot view.)