The Fork-Tailed Devil..History of the P-38

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Ovod said:
Which Armored commander would this be? I don't think the the M4 Sherman was ever considered a "undergunned death trap" - or was it?
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In March, 1945, General Eisenhower was upset about bad press about the M4. He asked his armored division commanders to respond to the allegations. Major General Maurice Rose, commander of the 3rd Armored Division responded by quoting the opinions of the men who had to take them into battle. All identified the inadequacy of the 75mm gun against Panzer Vs and the inability of the M4 to withstand enemy fire. They pointed out that nearly all Panzer V kills were delivered by artillery or air strikes.
Rose personally observed: "It is my personal conviction that the present M4 and M4A3 tank is inferior to the German Mark V." And that they could only be defeated by a combination of air, artillery, smart maneuvering and good gunnery. But this resulted in an "excessive number of losses."
 
As an aside, Gen. Rose was honored by his men, because he led from the front, being the first in to a town they took. The General died in the battle, so he was strapped onto the hood of a jeep to be the first in, when enemy left the town.
I read this many years ago, so memory may be hazy.
I also had a unit history when he was a National Guard Colonel, however book was a casualty of Katrina.
 
larrymc said:
With regard to "postwar," The Lockheed ad was published in Aviation magazine in March, 1945; the "Fork-tailed Devil" article was published in Flying magazine in August, 1945.
Neither addresses the origin of the term.
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Larry - can we hope for the re-vamp of your site?

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tomo pauk said:
Larry - can we hope for the re-vamp of your site?

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It seems unlikely. However, if someone is willing to take it over, I am willing to sell pretty cheap. The site itself is about 5-1/2 GB; the scanned (and mostly processed, but not incorporated) research material is 25GB more, plus 22-1/2GB of TOs (not all of which are WWII, but most are.)
They would have to have a BluRay reader and it would probably amount to 4 discs.
The site is coded in bare-metal HTML -- not even CSS, much less Java or Javascript. Most pages are either HTML, PDF or PNG; scanned documents that haven't been incorporated are mostly TIFF. Completing it would be a lot of work and would have to be a labor of love. I have pretty much aged out of that camp.
 
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