What was the combat effectiveness of German infantry in the western front of the Second World War?
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You might want to consider not only the combat effectiveness of the German infantry, but also how it interacts with its support: aviation and artillery fires, and with the tansk that were often helping its counterattacks.
The combat effectiveness of the German infantry depended of the units, but notably you can say that the mountain, Austrian or German borne, infantry had great results against the Allied corpses in Italy.
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So what is your point? You said the Axis had Mountain/Alpine troops, I named the ones the US had, which obviously performed at least as well as the Axis. Yes, they landed in Italy in January 1945; but they were part of the 1943 campaign against the Japanese in the Aleutian islands; and were scheduled to be part of the invasion of the Japanese home islands (Operation Olympic). Obviously they benefited from other US troops' experiences; so had the units of all armies in that war.
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I think you are talking about Trevor Dupuy's modeling as talked about in his book Numbers, Predictions, and War.
While I am skeptical of this kind of thing, I don't think it is controversial that a typical German unit fought better than the typical Allied unit. That's why we brought along more units.
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Col. Peter R. Mansoor, author of the well-regarded book "The GI Offensive in Europe", offers this extensively researched and well reasoned conclusion in a lecture on the topic -
A more balanced comparison of German and American forces would compare each organization at its zenith, say, the German army in June 1941 and the American army in April 1945. I submit that one would be hard pressed to choose between the two forces on the basis of technical or tactical proficiency at the division level.
He also discusses the difficulty in comparing infantry to infantry, as the AUS and Wehrmacht had very different tactical doctrines that do not match up neatly, and cannot be separated from their role in combined arms warfare.
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