Married2Allis
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Some german guy had a 1943 Panther tank in the cellar, occasionally took it out and cruised the neighborhood!
ave you thought about the problems of building tanks that size and shipping them to Europe?(quoted from post at 09:35:46 07/07/15)
The real crime was the dopes in the US military brass that sent men to their deaths with 75mm Sherman tanks against German tanks.
(quoted from post at 15:44:16 07/07/15) That's what the brass call "acceptable looses."
(quoted from post at 15:33:40 07/07/15) They were transporting the M26 to the European theater right at the end of the war. The brass knew about gas powered tanks and the lite gun on the Sherman and sent them into combat knowing it was inadequate when facing any German tank armed with the 88MM or other larger bore German gunned tanks.
M26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M26_Pershing
So that means that the senior brass knew they were getting people killed yet they sent field commanders the Shermans anyway. This happened in the Pentagon even above Ike's level of decision making.
Interestingly enough they could have added extra armor and mounted a large gun on the Sherman. The Israelis Had then until sometime in the 70's. They had up gunned them to the M68 105 MM gun.
Rick
(quoted from post at 15:53:31 07/07/15)(quoted from post at 15:33:40 07/07/15) They were transporting the M26 to the European theater right at the end of the war. The brass knew about gas powered tanks and the lite gun on the Sherman and sent them into combat knowing it was inadequate when facing any German tank armed with the 88MM or other larger bore German gunned tanks.
M26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M26_Pershing
So that means that the senior brass knew they were getting people killed yet they sent field commanders the Shermans anyway. This happened in the Pentagon even above Ike's level of decision making.
Interestingly enough they could have added extra armor and mounted a large gun on the Sherman. The Israelis Had then until sometime in the 70's. They had up gunned them to the M68 105 MM gun.
Rick
According to their doctrine, tanks seldom should be fighting other tanks, they relied on air power and artillery to fight tanks.
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