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Subject: [Leica] There's something about German design ...
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Tue Jan 16 09:04:14 2007
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That?s what I meant - Sherman comes first when regarding losses.
All the best!
Raimo K
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http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] There's something about German design ...


> 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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