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Re: How to kill a GEV tank

From: <Pmj6@a...>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 21:21:04 EDT
Subject: Re: How to kill a GEV tank

In a message dated 98-06-25 11:59:09 EDT, you write:

<< There were several unsupported panzer attacks
 without full infantry support IIRC.
  >>
And they worked just fine against poorly motivated troops.  However,
when the
opposition was not willing to run at the first sight of a tank, Germans
got
mauled.  The 4th PzDiv took a real licking on Sept. 1 when it tried to
assault
a Polish cav brigade in a forest (lost 40 tanks) and again later on in
the
campaign when its commander thought it could take Warsaw on the march
(lost 40
more tanks).  After the Polish campaign all Panzer divisions got a new
TO&E
with fewer tanks and more infantry.  Germans, by the way, had a working
equivalent of APFC belt (called Verteidigungswaffe, or something like
that)
during WW2, but it did not obviate the need for having infantry support. 

Mike Jasinski


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