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    Machine Guns Mortars Antitank: Wwii: D-Day in Pictures

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    The German military had qualitative and quantitative advantages over the Allies at the start of World War 2 in 1939. The German infantry divisions had significantly more firepower than Allied divisions. Additionally, Germany had six armored divisions with around 2,400 tanks organized and trained to operate together, whereas the Allies had many tanks but no organized armored divisions. This mobile "blitzkrieg" approach, using massed tank formations with air and infantry support, allowed Germany to quickly punch holes in enemy lines and overwhelm opponents through speed and maneuverability.

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    The German military had qualitative and quantitative advantages over the Allies at the start of World War 2 in 1939. The German infantry divisions had significantly more firepower than Allied divisions. Additionally, Germany had six armored divisions with around 2,400 tanks organized and trained to operate together, whereas the Allies had many tanks but no organized armored divisions. This mobile "blitzkrieg" approach, using massed tank formations with air and infantry support, allowed Germany to quickly punch holes in enemy lines and overwhelm opponents through speed and maneuverability.

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    The German military had qualitative and quantitative advantages over the Allies at the start of World War 2 in 1939. The German infantry divisions had significantly more firepower than Allied divisions. Additionally, Germany had six armored divisions with around 2,400 tanks organized and trained to operate together, whereas the Allies had many tanks but no organized armored divisions. This mobile "blitzkrieg" approach, using massed tank formations with air and infantry support, allowed Germany to quickly punch holes in enemy lines and overwhelm opponents through speed and maneuverability.

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    Machine Guns Mortars Antitank: Wwii: D-Day in Pictures

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    The German military had qualitative and quantitative advantages over the Allies at the start of World War 2 in 1939. The German infantry divisions had significantly more firepower than Allied divisions. Additionally, Germany had six armored divisions with around 2,400 tanks organized and trained to operate together, whereas the Allies had many tanks but no organized armored divisions. This mobile "blitzkrieg" approach, using massed tank formations with air and infantry support, allowed Germany to quickly punch holes in enemy lines and overwhelm opponents through speed and maneuverability.

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    It was the qualitative superiority of the German infantry divisions and

    the number of their armoured divisions that made the difference in


    1939. The firepower of a German infantry division far exceeded that of
    a French, British, or Polish division; the standard German division
    included 442 machine guns, 135 mortars, 72 antitank guns, and 24
    howitzers. Allied divisions had a firepower only slightly greater than
    that of World War I. Germany had six armoured divisions in
    September 1939; the Allies, though they had a large number of tanks,
    had no armoured divisions at that time.

    BRITANNICA EXCLUSIVE ARCHIVE

    WWII: D-DAY IN PICTURES

    After a prolonged naval and aerial bombardment of German defenses on the

    Channel coast of France and the Low Countries, the Allied invasion of
    Normandy began in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944. This collection

    of pictures documents the historic event that created a turning point in World

    War II.

    The six armoured, or panzer, divisions of the


    Wehrmacht comprised some 2,400 tanks. And though Germany would
    subsequently expand its tank forces during the first years of the war, it
    was not the number of tanks that Germany had (the Allies had almost
    as many in September 1939) but the fact of their being organized into
    divisions and operated as such that was to prove decisive. In
    accordance with the doctrines of General Heinz Guderian, the German
    tanks were used in massed formations in conjunction with motorized
    artillery to punch holes in the enemy line and to isolate segments of
    the enemy, which were then surrounded and captured by motorized
    German infantry divisions while the tanks ranged forward to repeat
    the process: deep drives into enemy territory by panzer divisions were
    thus followed by mechanized infantry and foot soldiers. These tactics
    were supported by dive bombers that attacked and disrupted the
    enemy’s supply and communications lines and spread panic and
    confusion in its rear, thus further paralyzing its defensive capabilities.
    Mechanization was the key to the German blitzkrieg, or “lightning
    war,” so named because of the unprecedented speed and mobility that
    were its salient characteristics. Tested and well-trained in maneuvers,
    actually had more planes in 1939 than Germany did, but their strength
    was made up of many different types, some of them obsolescent. The
    corresponding table shows the number of first-line military aircraft
    available to the Allies at the outbreak of war. the German panzer
    divisions constituted a force with no equal in Europe.


    German tanksGerman Pz. IV (foreground) and Pz. III (background) tanks, 1942. U.S. Army photograph
    StukaGerman Junkers Ju 87 “Stuka” dive-bomber.UPI/Bettmann Archive

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