[DeTomaso] NPC: Another reason to go to Sturgis Bike Week...

[Torbjorn Harlem]

I'm sorry I started this Tank thing.

But a nice story with the Sherman guy.
They said the Sherman partly won the war. Not due to quality but the amount of them!
And thanks to your WW2 vets we don't speak German all over Europe today.


Just a little over average interested in the WW2."


Torbjorn
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Sendt: 28. august 2008 15:01
Til: MikeLDrew at aol.com; torbharl at online.no; detomaso at realbig.com
Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Another reason to go to Sturgis Bike Week...

Mike,

Just a few weeks ago I was talking with a vet at a nursing home. He told me
he was riding on a Sherman when it was hit by a shell. It blew him right off
the tank. He said he was lucky to be alive, if it was a better tank the
shell would have fragmented and killed him. 


Larry - Cleveland



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Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:59 PM
To: torbharl at online.no; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Another reason to go to Sturgis Bike Week...


In a message dated 8/26/08 15 16 22, torbharl at online.no writes:


> Tiger was the model before the Panther .
> 
>>>Actually, the Panther came first, although it and the Tiger I came out at

almost the same time.

> > T34 = developed in 1934 and named Tiger
> 
>>>The T34 was the main Russian tank, and the Panther and Tiger were
designed 
to defeat it on the Russian front.   Either one would blow any US tanks into

smithereens whereas the Sherman's 75mm gun was totally ineffective.   Later 
Shermans had a 76mm gun which was better--but not better enough.

Fortunately we had a whole bunch of airplanes. :>)

> > Panther was a lot bigger more effectiv then the T34.
> 
>>>They were about the same size; the Panther was more effective however.   
The Tiger I was a LOT more effective, and the Tiger II (King Tiger) was 
unstoppable, except it was grossly underpowered, overweight, and suffered
from 
mechanical unreliability.   You didn't defeat a King Tiger, so much as you
just 
waited around for it to bog down or break down.

Mike


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