Rick, in your earlier post you indicated we fought WW2 with substandard equipment. I diasgreed, except for the M4 Sherman tank. I was wrong on that point, all our armour was substandard. It is just that the M4 was the best we had. Yes, we started out slow but that was mostly over by the Battle of Midway 6-7 months after 7 Dec 1941. You just have some stuff wrong. Russia never had a jet in combat in WW2. Our troups did not fight in 1941, or most of 1942 with Springfield 03A3s. O3A3s were not developed untill 1942. Early in the war the Marines mostly had 03 Springfields and the Army, mostly in the Phillipines, had 1917 Enfields. In the Phillipines 30-40 Krags were also present, as were trapdoor Springfields. As far as substandard equipment, there was a debate, loudly sounded by the Marines, that the 03 was a better weapon than the M1 rifle. The F4F was great because it had a 6 to 1 kill ratio and it could fly off the Jeep Carriers, the F6 was to heavy. That ability provided fighter and bomber cover to places it could not otherwise be. It sure made the north Atlantic unfriendly to U boats. When the P40 was fitted with the Merlin engine it gave up nothing to the P51. You said we fought WW2 with substandard equipment, I said except for armour everything we had was better. Please tell who has a better A bomb. Do you really think our Colt 45 pistols were substandard when compared to a Jap Nambue(?) or a German P38 ?
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