US and British armies didn't fight like the Russians either- there would have been no "meatgrinder offensive."
Caen and the bocage was a scene of brutal fighting, fighting that had the british asking serious questions about the casualties they were recieving. This was against an enemy poorly supplied, starved of men, machines and fuel. And against a luftwaffe which had been cut to ribbons
Some that always kind of confused me about the World Wars was how Germany was able to build up such a formidable military between World War I and World War II. Did the allies just not enforce the Treaty of Versailles after the war or something? There were French troops stationed in the Rhineland right?
On paper it wasn't that formidable, the germans were planning for a war in 1945. The British and French had more men, more tanks, more planes and more ships. It was the combined arms tactics that put the allies on the back foot.
So at which point exactly did Britain stop becoming a superpower?
Prior to World War II? After World War II?
And at which point did the U.S. become a superpower?
The middle of WWII, fighting in north africa, the atlantic, the med and the far east was insanity.
If Patton didn't die in that stupid accident in 1945 that scenario could be possible. I'm not entirely sure if the defeated German army would join them but a two front attack (Europe and Pacific) could be in place after the surrender of Japan. Patton thought that the Red Army was under-supplied and vulnerable but mostly weak. Looking back Hitler thought the same
The allies would have been bitchslapped back into the atlantic. The red army of 1945 was exceptionally well equipped, battle hardened like no other and had gained a superb understanding of deep strike tactics and logistics, as was demonstrated in the soviet liberation of manchuria.
In fact i'd argue the red army of 45 was more formidable than the germans ever were.