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2 hours ago, Peasant said:
Is German tank inferiority in France a myth, overblown, or real?
Pz II, 38t, Pz I, (and heavier) Pz III, are more mobile (in terms of fuel range) than their French counterparts?
Why does the Pz III get such a bad rep in wehraboo circles?
German tanks in France were chiefly light tanks. The PzIII was available only in small numbers because they had one hell of a time getting production ramped up.
As for a bad rap, probably because you can't put a huge fuckoff gun on the chassis. Interestingly enough, the Soviets liked the PzIII. It was popular to use in captured tank units and there were two SPG designs that used it as a chassis.
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It's a good game.
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I saw a lot of "were flamethrowers used in Europe" questions pop up in the past week. Looks like a good confirmation that it was.
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13 hours ago, T___A said:
got owned by some flowers.
But the 2S1 wasn't in service yet
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The dimensional accuracy may have suffered a little from Office Lens. It didn't seem off on paper.
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The tank I am referring to was sent to Tel-El-Kebir in August of 1942. It still had the old M2 gun and you can see the distinctive counterweight in the camouflage diagrams they distributed. The ones distributed only a few months later depict the standard M3 gun.
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57 minutes ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:
The only Sherman I know of that, shipped with an M2 was the first production model delivered the to the Brits, they still have it too, it was named Michael, but at some point during the war it had an M3 installed. It was not used in combat.
There was definitely more than one. Both Michael and the first tank to arrive in North Africa had an M2 gun.
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The local university had a book sale, so I basically swept up everything with as much as the word "tank" in it off the military history table.
But wait, there's more. Zoom, enhance!
These books bound in red cloth are each worth as much as the rest of that stack combined.
They're official histories of the Canadian army, published only a few years after the war with the backing of the Department of National Defense. As a result they have amazing photographs and maps actually drawn by military cartographers.
And the best part is that since they've been printed 70 years ago, so they're all out of copyright
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On 10/14/2018 at 7:58 PM, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:
EE did you mean M2 machine gun or the Short M2 75mm gun that some Lee and Grants got?
75 mm gun M2. Their Sherman didn't have an AA .50 cal.
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You got STALKER into my Fallout!
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I can't tell if this is a Sherman they tried to disguise as something else or something else they tried to disguise as a Sherman. It's bad either way.
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It was great when people tried to pronounce the name in Teamspeak. My favourites were "leffe" and "lefeuf".
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My article on the Sexton is out: https://warspot.ru/13071-ponomar-boga-voyny
Sorry @whelm, the editor cut out my acknowledgement.
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@Jeeps_Guns_Tanks do you know if there were any M2-armed Shermans with only one hull MG? I have a British report where it's almost certainly a tank with an M2 (the first to arrive in Africa), but the description says there is only one hull MG instead of there.
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Yup, it was at the museum. Hopefully the parts won't sit out there for long.
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Some Sherman bits and pieces.
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The M4 Sherman Tank Epic Information Thread.. (work in progress)
in Mechanized Warfare
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I saw the famous Michael Sherman at Bovington. Interestingly enough, it has the red British "unarmoured" triangle screwed into the side. Was the tank actually made from mild steel or did they simply not want it to be sent into combat?