[ARC5] Off topic

[Gary Pewitt]

I think it would be fair to mention that most of those German tanks were 
knocked out by US and British fighter bombers.  We did have -total- air 
superiority.  Tank on tank I don't know of many who wouldn't agree that 
the Panzer IV's and especially the Tigers were
superior to the Shermans.  We lost thousands of Shermans in France and 
almost none of them were lost to the Luftwaffe.  We could afford the 
losses, they the Germans, couldn't.  WWII was won in a large part by our 
overwhelming production capability and far superior intelligence system 
ie. code breaking, deception, and support to and from allies. This is 
not to slight the courage or quality of our fighting men and women.  
They were a match for any on earth.


On 1/5/2012 9:32 PM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
> 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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