RE: WW2 Tanks.... A question....
December 3, 2018 at 8:05 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2018 at 8:10 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 3, 2018 at 6:13 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(December 3, 2018 at 5:45 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Heres a way to conceptualize it, Brian. Think of a pringles can. Now fill up your car with pringles cans.
(it's not -quite- right, but it's the first thing that jumped out at me)
One of my profs. rode Stuart tanks from Cairo to the Alps in WWII. He was fighting Tiger tanks in those bitty tin cans. I explained it to a class like this:
"Imagine a baseball bat. Prof. Rothenburg was firing shells about the size of the handle. The Tigers were firing shells the size of the business end."
The business end of a baseball bat is only 67mm across. Tiger shells were 88mm across.
There was an account of a king tiger shell going through a sherman’s Gun mantlet, lower part of the gun breach, the engine compartment bulkhead, the engine block, exit through the back of the Sherman, going through an earthen berm, and penetrating the transmission case and the transmission of another Sherman behind it.
