were is stalingrad? that was by far the most it made wining the war in russia not posible for the germans and threw them into retreat across that hole section of the front.. but it did another thing the most important of all it showed the germans were not invinsible and could be defeated
I don't think there is any battle that can be judged significantly more important or decisive than others. In almost all cases in the Second World War, the battles were decisive, which makes it hard to judge one that was THE most decisive. For example - If we had lost on D-Day, we would not have been able to win the war. But if we had lost the Battle of Britain, we could not have fought on D-Day, because Britain would have been conquered. If we had not lost at Dunkirk, D-Day wouldn't have even been neccesary!
Similarily, if the Japanese had never attacked Pearl Harbour, the US would never have joined the war and NONE of the events following or even before D-Day could have taken place.
See, everything is equally important and has equal power of changing history.
It was definetly D-Day no doubt, but who know had the Russians been defeated at Stalingrad and Hitler taken over the country he wouldve then been able to redirect men and supplies souly to the the American Front aand overwhelmed us.
It's not about dieing for your country, it's about making the enemy die for theirs.
I disagree. Germany's fundamental problem was that they conquered to much land that they could not defend. More land wouldn't of made a positive effect for Hitler.
Maybe not..... the problem was africa and lather italie. Those fronts took forces which would normally be used to defend the homeland or attack russia. It's Mussulinis fault, that frantic loser!
It has to be stalingrad, without the eventual german defeat there as well as the amount of rescorces the germans put into the fight there d-day would not have been possible. Lets face it, the russians did the bulk of the hard fighting, and gave the US enough time to build up our capabities, we were not much of a force before 1944. Ive always thought it would be interesting to see how a different allied army would have faired on the eastern front. The US and Brits fought wars in a surgical fashion,they embraced new ideas, (for the most part) the russians just through more men at the problem, which Ive never really understood. The Russians had a good air force and fantastic pilots, yet they never were able to take full advantage of that capability, so the infantry suffered.
While fighting near Stalingrad the german Luftwaffe was still superior to Russian air forces. After operation little saturn on the german airfield the germans had no longer a big airport for their plaens so tehy lost control of the skies near the region. Stalingrad really was a big decisiv battle but there must be 2 decisive battle to win WW2 (because yoy wont defeat japanese if you retake stalingrad ). THe other decisive battle must be the one on guad. canal (how do you spell this island?)
Honestly as ive been fortunate to experience re-enactments of battles i can say that battles are terrible men dying and i cant enjoy a certain battle, if any of you had been in a certain fire fight then u would know.
But i have great respect for the attack on d-day landings, defense of dunkirk & battle of the bulge.
It's a tie. Dunkirk and Moscow, both are hands down the two stupidest things Hitler has EVER done. At Dunkirk he LET the British retreat by halting the **** advance, and then at Moscow he delayed the taking of Moscow by first sending the troops to aid the north, then the south, and THEN letting them continue on with their advance weeks later.
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). THe other decisive battle must be the one on guad. canal (how do you spell this island?)
. From now on I will always use Guadacanal
