Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/15

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Subject: [Leica] There's something about German design ...
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Mon Jan 15 13:55:12 2007
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At 04:42 PM 1/15/2007, Raimo K wrote:
 >Yeah, it was the ammo that caught fire - no consolation - the later 
 >variants
 >were not deployed until 1944.
 >In his memoirs Belton Y. Cooper who served in the 3rd Armored Division and
 >was in charge of retrieving destroyed and damaged tanks says that from the
 >nominal strength of 232 Shermans 1348 were lost in combat, a loss rate of
 >540%. And it is representative, I?m afraid.
 >All the best!

One unit, Raimo, does not make a war.  Look at 
the overall stats for armor loss, broken down by 
causes, for all forces.  The Sherman comes in a 
strong first, followed by the later British 
designs, then by the PZKW IV.  The Panther and 
T-34/85 tail behind by quite a bit.

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!



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