Best heavy tank of WW2?
By the end of WW2, there were several heavy tanks in active, if limited, service. Which was the best combination of firepower, protection and mobility? Per Wiki (for what that's worth)... IS-2 (46...
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I would have to agree with crmn. The A/C you discribed where the scourge of the german army but it was is supply and maintance crews that they distroyed not tanks, yes , some where hit by rocket/bombs...
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Cliff I found one story so far in "German Tanks of WWII In Color" They list an First Lt. Thomas Osborne of the US 2nd Armord Div. " Plianly visible at 2,500 yds was markVI with its side exposed to us....
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Ken, you seem to forget that the IS-II was so feared by the germans that they issued a Do Not Engage order to their troops in regards to it.
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In mid-June 1944, a British 1st Army column of armour - mainly Cromwells with 75mm main armament - was destroyed by a single Tiger I. Can't recall the exact figures, but over a dozen British tanks...
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In mid-June 1944, a British 1st Army column of armour - mainly Cromwells with 75mm main armament - was destroyed by a single Tiger I. That sounds like Villiers-Bocage on 13 June 1944 where...
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What exactly does Wittmann dieing a couple of week later have to do with Villiers-Bocage? Whenever anyone mentions Villiers-Bocage someone feels the need to point out the Wittmann died a couple of...
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Be awful careful in putting too much stock into tales like "a single Tiger I knocking out 30 British tanks" . Most allied tanks were knocked out by PanzerFaust's, anti-tank guns and SP's. At the...
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What exactly does Wittmann dieing a couple of week later have to do with Villiers-Bocage? You mean the fact that the Nazi b*****d was brewed up in one of them Tigers that everyone says were so hard to...
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crmn wrote: In mid-June 1944, a British 1st Army column of armour - mainly Cromwells with 75mm main armament - was destroyed by a single Tiger I. That sounds like Villiers-Bocage on 13 June 1944 where...
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crmn wrote: What exactly does Wittmann dieing a couple of week later have to do with Villiers-Bocage? You mean the fact that the Nazi b*****d was brewed up in one of them Tigers that everyone says...
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Seeing as it is customary to give the credit for a successful officer to the commanding officer On the other hand, it isn't usual to claim that an officer commanding won a battle single handed which...
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The emergance of the IS-2 in the east was an shock to the germans, Von Manteuffel wrote ' It was an shock to find that, although my tigers begain to hit them at 2200m, our shells (sic) did not...
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On the subject of single German heavies destroying disproportionate numbers of Allied tanks, George Fourty describes a single Jagdtiger destroying a column of US armour in his book "German Tanks of...
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Another version of that same action I've seen noted that the single Jagdtiger was accompanied by several other assault guns and tanks.
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crmn wrote: Another version of that same action I've seen noted that the single Jagdtiger was accompanied by several other assault guns and tanks. That's what I'm getting at . Stephen Zaloga amongst...
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First off Getz, the situation you showed, if you took the time to do more research, is a situation that was rare at best, and a situation that was far from applicable only to german tanks. For example...
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I would have to disagree with you on your facts about the jagtiger. In "The Encyclopedia of Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles, General Editor Christopher F. Foss, Thunder Bay Press 2002." "Jadgtiger...
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USS Clarence E Walsh wrote: First off Getz, the situation you showed, if you took the time to do more research, is a situation that was rare at best, and a situation that was far from applicable only...
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one source I have state the Tiger II & Jagd Tiger had about the same speed and that the JagdTiger had a "practical road speed of about 10-11 MPH" could this be because maybe that low speed was the...
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