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Army |
Navy |
Airforce |
| Germany |
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- 2 Battleships
- 2 battlecruisers
- 9 Cruisers
- 22 Destroyers
- 60 U Boats
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- 1750 bombers
- 1200 fighters
(Numbers deployed in the Invasion of Poland) |
| Poland |
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| USSR |
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- 2 battleships
- 2 Cruisers
- Submarines - many, I can't find an exact number though.
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18,000 (planes by 1941) |
| France |
- 900,000 men
- 5 million reservists
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- 2 Battlecruisers
- 7 Heavy Cruisers
- 12 Light Cruisers
- 71 Destroyers
- 76 Submarines
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| Great Britain |
- 1.65 million following Dunkirk
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- 15 battleships
- 7 carriers
- 66 Cruisers
- 184 Destroyers
- 60 Submarines
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Experience / Weaponry |
Other Factors |
| Germany |
- Sub machine guns were used by the Wehrmacht.
- Panzer Tanks well armed and highly efficient
- Luftwaffe experience in Spanish Civil War
- Trained to combine forces in offensive operations (Paratroopers, Luftwaffe
and Heer)
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- Technologically advanced
- Politically motivated troops (Waffen SS)
- Danger of fighting on two fronts
- Kriegsmarine under developed
- Potential supply problems in prolonged conflict
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| Poland |
- Polish army experienced as a result of border skirmishes following
creation of USSR
- Limited mechanisation of forces
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- Ability to decipher German encrypted messages
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| USSR |
- Brief war with Japan and veterans from the Russian Civil War
- 4 engine bombers
- Reliability of armaments an issue
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- Purges of armed forces leadership in 1936 / 1939
- Availability of raw materials and manpower almost limitless
- Industry relatively inefficient, goods produced of variable quality
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| France |
- Maginot Line considered impregnable
- Technologically sound: Tanks produced by companies such as Renault
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- Defensive policy
- Number of reservists
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| Great Britain |
- Experience of policing the Empire
- Largest navy in the world
- Problems with reliability of infantry rifles
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- Radar
- Forces from Dominions and Empire
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