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UAL T38 Phlyer
Germany again, on the Eastern front. Vastly superior army in training, discipline, weapons, communications, and tactics.
Disadvantages: logistic chain was horrifically long, and troops heavily outnumbered. Some would cite the brutal Russian winter, but the Russians had to deal without that, too.
In the end, it was a numbers game.
I had a history teacher (high school, I think) who said two of the best field marshals in the WW II Red Army were Winter, and Mud