[ARC5] Off topic

Robert Eleazer releazer at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 5 22:32:48 EST 2012


Gordon, the book "Armored Thunderbolt" about the development of the Sherman 
tank is a great read and presents a rather different view.  Among other 
things the Shermans that hit the beach at Normandy sometimes had as much as 
10,000 miles of training on them and were good for many more.  The typical 
Panther or Tiger was worn out at 7500 miles and needed to go back to a depot 
to be rebuilt.

In the book Citizen Soliders Stephen Ambrose describes an incident where 
American tanks were going thorough German town and a little boy kept saying 
"Deutsh panzers ist better."  Finally an US soldier turned to the little boy 
and said "If the German tanks are better, where are they?"

Answer:  Either blown up or in the shop.

By the way, one thing I have never read is how German and Amercian tank 
radios compared in terms of effectivness.

Wayne
WB5WSV



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