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After the UAE army and the Afrika Korps continued to pour cloudburst bombs on US positions as if they didn't need money, causing huge casualties, Eisenhower had no choice but to take the initiative, but his desperate gamble failed to win the more numerous and brave A-German coalition forces in the field, and finally had to flee from North Africa with only a few hundred thousand remnants of the remaining 100,000 troops under the cover of naval artillery.

As for Montgomery, who took the lead in playing turtle tactics, he saw the opportunity even earlier, when Klim's army began to use a large number of cloudburst bombs and captured a number of British positions, Montgomery realized that this North African strategy had failed again, and began to prepare for retreat before greeting Eisenhower, and once again effectively sacrificed American troops to reduce the losses of the British Commonwealth army

The failure of the North African strategy again was undoubtedly a big blow to the allies, but in this unfavorable situation, the incomparably strong national strength of the United States was more and more manifested. During the war in North Africa, the US military not only seized the opportunity of the weakening of Germany's air defense forces due to the southward movement of the naval air, and intensified its strategic bombing, but also launched a continuous offensive against the Japanese army in the Pacific theater

By the end of 1945, the U.S. military had successfully recaptured the entire Polynesian archipelago from the Japanese, regaining control of nearly half of the Pacific Ocean, with a direct attack on Samoa and Fiji. In the Battle of Polynesia, which lasted several months, the US military not only gave full play to the advantages of carrier-based aviation in terms of flexibility and mobility, but also successfully suppressed the scattered land-based aircraft group deployed by the Japanese army. Moreover, it made full use of the huge numerical superiority of its auxiliary ships and provided the landing force with unprecedentedly powerful fire support.

As a matter of fact, because the barrel life of the large-caliber cannon is too short and expensive, the actual effect of a battleship's attack on the shore is not strictly speaking as that of a cruiser or even a destroyer, but the psychological deterrent effect is particularly great; while the main fleet of the Japanese army no longer dares to go out lightly, the firepower of more than 100 cruisers and destroyers of the US army can be brought into play unscrupulously, bringing a catastrophe to the Japanese troops defending the island

After capturing some of the islands, the US military built numerous field airfields at an unbelievable speed and quickly transferred a large number of land-based aircraft to transfer them, and soon completely dominated this vast airspace. After the side has completely seized sea and air supremacy. U.S. ground forces were able to fight in the battlefield environment they were most accustomed to. As a result, the performance has never been better.

During the Battle of Polynesia, the Japanese lost 200,000 killed and missing, and another 1,684 aircraft were shot down or destroyed, and 21 ships were sunk or captured, while the Americans suffered only 60,000 casualties, 562 aircraft, and 7 ships. And this disparity in exchange was achieved when the Japanese army was so stubborn that the number of surrenders and prisoners combined was less than 2,000. This brilliant victory made the disparity of power between the United States and Japan fully manifested. There was even more jubilation in the United States. In the eyes of many, there was no suspense in defeating Japan, except when Roosevelt saw the dormant dragon in the west of Japan on the world map. There was some faint uneasiness in my heart

While actively participating in the war, the United States also provided an astonishing amount of material aid to the Soviet Union, Britain and other allies, among which the British shipbuilding industry benefited the most, even though the degree of damage to this time and space was far greater than that of the same period in history, but with the strong support of the United States, at the end of 1945, the monthly output of British ships and merchant ships had reached 1/4 and 1/3 of the United States respectively, thus sharing the pressure on the United States to a large extent. The Soviet Union, with the assistance of the United States, also greatly accelerated the industrial reconstruction of the newly recovered land, especially the two large oil fields and the supporting oil refining industry, which greatly reduced the pressure on American aid and formed a virtuous circle. In addition, the Allies grew more supportive of their governments at the dawn of victory, allowing them to devote more of their forces to the Axis powers, a virtuous circle.

On the contrary, the situation in the Axis camp was the opposite, as the war situation worsened, the anti-war sentiment of the people in various countries became increasingly high, forcing the government to devote more forces to stabilize the rule, so that the forces that could be put into the battlefield were relatively reduced, and the front line was tightened, forming a vicious circle.

Comparatively speaking, the situation of a few countries such as Japan, which was hard-working and obedient, and the Arab Federation, which was supported by religious ideology, was better, but the situation of the German Nazi government, which had come to power by deceiving the people to gain support, and its client states with deep internal contradictions were much more difficult, and the three Nordic governments that joined the Axis powers in order to oppose the Soviet Union began to regret that they had fallen on this thief ship, and this sentiment became stronger than ever after the Soviet counteroffensive in the autumn of 1945

Although the granary of Ukraine was extremely important to the Soviet Union, the German army had built a strong defensive line in eastern Ukraine, and with the supply reserves that the Soviet army had only recently consumed, it was difficult to nibble on it. Therefore, the Soviet high command decided to transfer the main force back to the center, seize the weakness of the current enemy forces invading the Soviet Union but concentrated on the northern front, the southern front, and the central line, but are relatively empty, and recapture Moscow, the capital of the country that fell to the enemy, with a quick and powerful attack, and at the same time separate the enemy's two main forces in the north and south, so as to create favorable conditions for the subsequent annihilation.

Undoubtedly, this was a rather bold decision, and a central breakthrough would certainly split the enemy in two, but it would also mean being flanked by the enemy from both sides. However, the Moscow area is the most convenient area in the Soviet Union, and choosing to break through here can greatly reduce the negative impact of the Soviet army's lack of logistics capabilities, and the Soviet army's offensive timing is well chosen

After the first snowfall in Moscow in 1945, the Soviet Union's million-dollar Red Army unexpectedly launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the center, and at this time there were only more than 100,000 German troops stationed in Moscow, and it was not an elite army, even if the servant army and even the puppet army were added, the total strength was less than 300,000, and as a result, less than ten days after the battle, Moscow returned to the Soviet Union. And when the Germans reacted and prepared to destroy the Soviet Red Army in a flank attack from the north and south, thus breaking the Soviet delusions in one fell swoop, winter in Moscow had quietly arrived

As a result, although the German army achieved some victories in the early stage of the counterattack, as the climate continued to get colder, the German army's attack ability continued to weaken, and most of the servant army cannon fodder had returned to China to fight the fire at this time, leaving only a limited number of Polish, Slovak and Hungarian troops available, resulting in excessive losses of the German army itself in the early stage of the battle, and when it was time to give the Soviet army a fatal blow, the exhausted German army was no longer able to launch a full-scale offensive (to be continued......