7.92x33, best cartridge to come out of WWII...... Hmm, best cartridge to come out of WWII ALIVE, or best cartridge that was designed and produced first during WWII. If your statement was intended to be the latter, I would say, "yes, absolutely". If it was intended for the former version, I would have to say, "no". I like the 6.5x55.
WWII was won by Russian blood, but what would have happened if the USA didn't lend-lease equipment to them? Would the Russians have been able to beat the Germans at Stalingrad? The decision to invade Russia MIGHT just have been a possibly, almost, sort of good idea.
Is everyone forgetting the Japanese part of WWII!? Russian blood didn't really do anything there!
.30-'06 was obsolete by the time WWII broke out..... grrrr
.30-'06 was NOT obsolete during WWII. Look at every battle rifle, Mauser(s), G43/K43, Mosin, Tokarev, Garand, Springfield, Enfield(s) even the MAS 36 if you want to. All of them have pretty much the same "over powered" qualities. Lots of power, recoil, range, etc... G43 and Tokarev (spelling?) didn't come until REALLY late in the war. We had, not necessarily in the very beginning, but pretty much for the whole war, the M1 Garand. Semi-auto, very accurate, best sights (my opinion) of the semi-autos. A cartridge is only as obsolete as the rifle that you can find to harness its strengths and diminish the effects of its weakness. The M1 does that quite well, by weakening the felt recoil, providing quick follow up shots, and being an accurate rifle, reasonably reliable (etc). How do you judge obsolescence? Shouldn't it be judged by how advanced the thing you have (cartridge, rifle, tank, etc) is compared to what the competition is? Nobody had assault rifles at the beginning of WWII. Everyone was still in the bolt gun/SMG era, except the USA, who had a semi-auto/SMG equipped force (yeah, yeah, I know, not quite at the VERY beginning, but pretty close). The .30-'06 was NOT obsolete at the beginning of WWII, but it could be effectively argued that it was obsolete at the end of the war.