@ Type941:
I agree with most what you say about tanks, but not with this:
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Originally Posted by Type941
... Abraham, no way in 43 would the atack work. It's not about tank. It's about availablity of menpower. tank on its own was a metal box that went 100km and needed refuel, and dragged a train of supply trucks behind it. Germans anihilated those columns again and again.
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There were a million Allied soldiers in the Mediterranean theather doing very little in 1943 plus there were already 16 British divisions in Britain preparing for the invasion. More than enough manpower to sweep the few Germans in France back to Germany... (the
real German army was fighting deep in the Ukraine at that time, which put a terrible strain on German logistics and communications...)