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"Vanishing American Air Superiority"
"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in message ... My response is also directed to Mr. Kambic's reply, concerning logistics. On Mar 19, 8:59 am, Chris wrote: On Mar 19, 12:49 am, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote: An army of 100,000 could easily turn out 1000 barges a day! Low skill labor, I could organize that. Man, Ken, you are really unlucky. If you had been born in the 1760's you would have been a *superstar.* You see, in the 1790's and 1800's there were a lot of people trying to build lots blue water hulls for some big wars they had going on at the time. They thought, because of their hundreds of years of accumulated experience and lifetimes spent actually building ships, that it required a great deal of time, specialized materials and highly skilled labor demanding large wages. If only you had been there with your experience gained doing something completely different as a hobby, you could have shown them the errors of their ways. Any navy would have been thrilled with your ability to produce a sloop or frigate type hull with a hundred unskilled workers in a single day. Chris Manteuffel The Vikings were building sea worthy boats in 900AD, (I've designed and built boats and helped others do that), I think Germans could build a landing craft to cross the ditch, I assigned 1000 man hours to build one, if ya can't get that done, you deserve to lose the war, (oh yeah). A 1000 barges a day (on average) covers logistics. This is a ludicrous claim that only an idiot would make. Andrew Higgins had a superbly efficient organisation for building landing craft. He employed 30,000 people directly and built some 24,000 barges during the course of the war. This did not include the workforce building and assembling engines and other mechanical parts. At the peak of production his yards turned out 700 boats a month. Do the math. Ceasar and Normy had no problem in 0AD, then 1066AD, if ya wanna toss dates, (cutie pie). Julius Caesar launched his raids in 55 BC and 54 BC , as invasions they were less than successful. He died in 44 BC Beach head is a problem, but German 88's could seriously impair a Brit counter-attack, and once the Nazi's get a farmers field to do Me-109's, with air support from France, well things would get hairy, Lots of luck manhandling an 88 mm AA gun on and off a canal barge - they weigh around 7 tons A few dozen farmers fields loading up with Me-109's, Stuka's. Where does their fuel and ammunition come from are are they just intended as targets ? Keith |
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