Thursday, July 29, 2021
Who wins?
Speaking of Kraut OCD.... Here's an interesting Quora article on the preparations of Russia vs Krautland in WW2.
The question was:
How many trucks did Russia and Germany have at the start of Barbarossa?
The Soviet military had 432,600 transport trucks in June 1941, including 160,000 requisited from the civilian sector over the first week of war. The vast majority were dated GAZ AA - a license built 1930 Ford 1,5 ton truck and ZIS-5 - 3 ton. Germans didn’t have all that many motor vehicles or people who knew how to operate them, with the total fleet of about 150,000 trucks, including half-trucks and wheeled APCs. The Germans had about a million horses though.I've discussed Russia's Ford plant before. I didn't realize it was still turning out Fords in 1941. Previous articles gave the impression that it had closed in the '20s. The pictures are the most interesting part. Russian soldiers are ragged and disorganized and properly dirty. They're crowded into the Model A trucks in no particular order. Kraut soldiers and horses are shiny and surgically clean and PRECISELY SPACED. You could calibrate a carpenter's square from the PRECISE angles and distances in the PRECISE vector matrix. Who won? Ragged and disorganized won.
Labels: Metrology
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