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It would of been more help in the Kursk battle. If in addition it would of had a short gun with a big shell or flamethrower even better. Post Kursk the 88mm Ferdinand was an awesome tank killer. So on balance probably not.

I found that my parents had a long time friend who got a field commission for his action for the bridge. He kicked the behinds of a bunch of guys who wouldn't advance and then got them to take it. I wish I had known this before he passed away.

Hey! that first picture of 2nd Div. Marine is my uncle Bill. He was just tired after returning to the ship from being on the island battle for a number of days.

Who used that?

See you need to think 'Tall boys' and 'Grand Slams'.

That is partly a result of logic. When Germans were bombing and rocketing cities it was a horrible crime against civilians. Yet, the excuse for bombing German cities was they produced goods and services for their military. German civilian hands that could cook food for or cloth German...

Well, there you go. It was done to slow global warming from coal using carbon spewing industries. Is there anything more important to civilization then to stop global warming?

Do some of those people have relatives that fought (on the allied side) in WWII? I found letters my dad, who passed a few months ago, wrote to his parents while he was in the service during WWII. His ship, was in port at the time of the end of the war having their 20mm AA guns replace by more...

This did prompt me to finish my German production program. Though I've got numbers from different sources so I might be missing assault guns that are not StuGs. But the numbers I have is from 1/1940 to 4/1945 Germans and their allies produced 40,041 AFVs. I don't have losses yet. So yes...

I would say that is trying to have both sides of the argument. I.e. the T-34 was best because it was for winning a war of attrition and on the other side it was best because of it's exceptional performance compared to the other side. My math says that this is more like 2.6:1 Getting back to...

Not so fast there. Aug '44 Soviets had ~13,500 AFVs Jan '45 ~ 16,200. Their production and Lend-Lease for that time was 18,256. Or a difference is a loss of 15,500 AFVs. Aug '44 Germans on all fronts had 10,000 AFVs. Jan '45 there were 13,362. In 1944 they produced 18,956 total AFVs. So...

You are right. I forgot the exploding fuel tanks of the T-34. Archive Awareness : Gas Tanks, Fires, and Explosions

And that centerpiece was checked by the Germans using tank firefighting groups to hold the Russian breakthroughs until their lines reformed. No one is going to compare tanks because one side won a war of attrition. If that then you could throw 'is the tank is better' because of Lend-Lease or...

And that centerpiece was checked by the Germans using tank firefighting groups to hold the Russian breakthroughs until their lines reformed. No one is going to compare tanks because one side won a war of attrition. If that then you could throw 'is the tank is better' because of Lend-Lease or...

The PZ IVG I'm talking about is the earlier version with the 50+30 armor. I did a simulation of 3 vs 3 tanks at about 480m for T-34/76 M'43 and the 4G takes it 4 times to 1. Then vs the T-34/76e M'42 and the 4G wins only 1 times to 4. Then vs the T-34/57 M'41 and the 4G wins 4 to 0 with one tie.