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The US Invaded North Africa in November of 1942, and soon thereafter encountered the Wehrmacht (The German Army) under Rommel. After some initial humiliating defeats (at Kasserine, for example) the weight of American equipment and the fact that thr British Commonwealth Forces in Egypt were pressing from the other side of the continent began to take their toll. Eventually, the Afrika Corps was crushed, and a fair protion of its German forces and nearly all of its Italian forces surrendered. Next up was the Anglo-American invasion of Sicily, were the US forces fought combined German and Italian forces, and then on to Operation Husky, the invasion of Italy itself. The Italian Army quickly capitualted, but the Germans fought on, and the war in Italy became a grinding afair. The US tried to make an end run by landing forces on the beaches of Anzio, but the Germans were able to entrap those forces, and very nearly drive them into the sea.The war in Italy was still going on when Germany surrendered in 1945. The next major battle was the Normandy invasion, June 6, 1944. This massive effort by the allies managed to establish a foothold in France, but it took almost 60 dyas of combat thereafter to break out from the hedgrows and then to pursue the Germans back, nearly trapping them at the Falaise gap. The invasion of Southern France followed, and France was quickly liberated. The Allies took a gamble that fall, and dropped a carpet of airborne forces(including the US 101st and 82nd) across the Low Countries, hoping the British Army would be able to then capture the bridges leading into Germany's industrial heartland. This was operation Market-Garden, and it was a bloody failure. Over the following Winter (1944-1945), the German Army attacked in what the Americans called the Battle of the Bulge. US losses were very heavy, but by holding on to St. Vith and Bastogne, the US thwarted the German plans to cut the Allied armies in half and take the port of Antwerp. The rest of the winter was spent pushing the Germans back to the starting line, and then in the Spring, the US forces began breaching the Siegfried line, pushing into Germany. Aachen became the first German city to fall, and slowly, the allied offensive gained momentum. By late March or early April, the march across Germany had become a route, and although there were many skirmishes, and US forces continued to suffer battle casualties, there were no other major US / Germany battles in the war.

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In a battle between USA and Germany in WW2, in case of equal conditions: same number of tanks, same number of men and same number of supplies. In a period between 1944 and 1945, Germany would have won for sure. The German firepower was extremely superior to the allys(not the Russians). If we consider for example the battle of the bulge, the Germans nearly won. It was the wheather that saved US & British troops from defeat. In the battle of the bulge the allys suffered double of the loss..

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