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Frieser wrote that the Heer (German pronunciation:) [n] was not ready for blitzkrieg at the start of the war. A blitzkrieg method called for a young, highly skilled mechanized army. In 1939–1940, 45 percent of the army was 40 years old and 50 percent of the soldiers had only a few weeks' training.
The book explains Adolf Hitler's victory in 1940 in the Western Campaign. Deighton points out that Allies had far greater resources than the Germans. Deighton considers Hitler's military skills astonishing considering his background and complete lack of training (p. 52).
This lesson was learnt by the Soviet Union and the Americans, who eventually developed their own tanks capable of fighting the Panzers – such as the Soviet T-34 and its upgraded version, T-34-85, as well as the American M4A3(76)W HVSS (M4A3E8). Motorized warfare to this day remains a major component of modern warfare as tanks and tactics evolve.
Robert M. Citino (born June 19, 1958) is an American military historian and the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National WWII Museum.He is an authority on modern German military history, with an emphasis on World War II and the German influence upon modern operational doctrine.
14: The 1945 Bombing of Prague: American planes bomb the wrong city. 15: Venezuela and Uruguay declare war on Germany and Japan. 16: American paratroopers and Philippine Commonwealth troops land on Corregidor Island, in Manila Bay. Once the scene of the last American resistance in early 1942, it is now the scene of Japanese resistance.
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The Navy did a similar film called The 3-Point System which trained servicemen how to identify U.S. cruisers. [23] Rules of the Nautical Road was a naval training film geared towards officers that recreated a historical catastrophe, which was meant to encourage officers to study nautical rules and principles.