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JonZac · 04-18-06, 07:51 PM

Remember that the US doctrine at the time was an infantry breakthru, followed by the Sherman punching through the rear...it was NEVER designed to fight tanks. The US formed Tank Destroyer Battalions for that armed with the M10 and the 3in gun. That doctrine was mostly invalidated after actual war experience, but it was also the reasoning Patton used in delaying the M26..

In reality the US didn't want to fight tanks. We would come up against them, withdraw and drop arty and planes on the target. Tank v. Tank will rack up a causality list, when you can hit them from the air, or just hit their transportation network and starve them of fuel.

04-18-06, 07:51 PM	#41
JonZac Swabbie Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 14 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 0	Operational Doctrine Remember that the US doctrine at the time was an infantry breakthru, followed by the Sherman punching through the rear...it was NEVER designed to fight tanks. The US formed Tank Destroyer Battalions for that armed with the M10 and the 3in gun. That doctrine was mostly invalidated after actual war experience, but it was also the reasoning Patton used in delaying the M26.. In reality the US didn't want to fight tanks. We would come up against them, withdraw and drop arty and planes on the target. Tank v. Tank will rack up a causality list, when you can hit them from the air, or just hit their transportation network and starve them of fuel.