(December 3, 2018 at 8:05 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(December 3, 2018 at 6:13 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: 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.
I've heard Sherman tanks were called "Tommy Cookers" by the Germans for their habit of catching fire.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
