That's three extra divisions for the Germans to chuck at the Soviets. While not enough to win the war for the Germans, its going to cause the Soviets at lot more pain.
IIRC the British had to pull troops out of the RAF Regiment for replacements in late 44 in OTL. If their SF formations are getting the best the remaining formations are really going to suffer and I wouldn't be surprised that if by the third year of the war the British Army is up the creek.
That explains why the British will be rationing for so long that they have to keep rationing till the start of WWIII. Christ those terms are brutal.
Well at least some of the French when to the new world. Why to I get the bad feeling given how this TL has gone that whatever happens at...
So fighting in the Caucasus is looking likely. Christ this is going to be a blood bath. The Balkans are always a bloodbath. Why do I think Suez will fall this go around?