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The old motto was "To be or not to be".

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EC

Thank you, Jerry.
Now the search is over. The number of German and Italian generals KIA in North Africa, Sicily and the Balkans is not too much different, I see.

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EC

Thank you Jerry.

Were there similar losses during the 1941 Balkan campaign and the following partisan warfare until 8 Sept. 1943?

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EC

Hello Gentlemen,

I'm just back from a visit to El Alamein.
I would like to know how many German generals died in North Africa and in Sicily during those campaings.

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EC

Quite a modest discovery indeed, it's a self-evident truth, I think.

EC

Not. The Italian Fascist Republic troops had semi automatic German rifles and Panzerfaust in 1944-1945 and their performances on the Italian, French (Alpine) and Eastern Front, facing the Yugoslavia partisans in Istria in 1945, were good and not different from the German ones; the Italian troops wer...

Hello Mark,

take it easy and many thanks

EC

Hello Sid, I can only supply you some infos about the Italian motor ship Himalaya cargo which arrived in France from Brazil in Aug. 1941 (3.146 t of raw materials and most rare minerals - 220 t cromo, 50 t molibdeno, 30 t vanadio, 210 t nickel, 1.000 t copper, 1.000 t tin, all bbought in USA during ...

Hello Mark, this is beyons my most audacious hopes. The first record you sent me (44, 30, 13, 96, 85, 206) was so about Hurricanes only while the socond one was dedicated to the other types of fighters. What about bombers (Blenheim and Wellington; I presume these were the only types of bombers sent ...

Hello Sid, as a matter of fact I wrote "in the Med." as that was the only place where Italian shipping could have a strategic influence on Axis operations. The blockade runnuer activity was a brilliant effort, but had no real strategic effect. about 150.000 tons (the italian freighters and...

Thank you. It was just what I needed. A confrontation between the big RAT total force, the British aircraft manifacture during 1940 and 1941, not to mention the planes bought in USA, shows how modest was the effort in M.E.

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EC

Hello Sid. you are, of course, right about PL's argouments. No merchant ship was a match for a men.of.war; the German auxiliary cruisers were, by 1943, only a remote menace in the Indian Ocean and they needed, above all, a lot of first class cadres and personnell. It was simply impossibile to man mo...

Hello Mark, unfortunatly I was unable to do any progress. What I'm looking for are only the new RAF figher Squadrons which were sent in the M.E. since Autumn 1940 until June 1941 just to establish if the Fighter Command was reduced (or not) before the invasion of Russia altered the balance. many tha...

Hello Beershark, Motor Luches served in the Med. (Adriatic too), in the Far East and wherever there was the necessity of a sound boat with sound sailors. Ther's the bad habit to consider MTBs only forgetting: a) MTBs did not spent most of their time running like hell and launching torpedoes, but doi...

Hello Carl, thank you for the suggestion; anything you could find on the shelf would be, anyway, welcome. Until early April 1943 the USAAF four engined bomber offensive against Italy was a small one, then it increased dramatically until Aug. 1943 when the losses over Ploesti and the call in Britain ...