[WarInEur] The other side of the plate

[sgminfo]

A 'must' for panzerpushers everywhere...
I have often wondered at CRT nr 4 in the latter stages of the war for 
the German forces,
and in many anecdotal combat histories,
the lacklustre performamce of the panzertruppen, in later 1944 and in 1945

It has often seemed somewhat confusing
to see these reports,
when with such vaunted top notch equipment
you would expect troops with even rudamentary training
to perform much better.

Indeed some of the ballistic figures drawn for various
combat models seem 'ungenerous' to a certain degree
'out of keeping' with the fearsome reputation of the individual vehicles.

For example 'Combat mission'
And action near Paderborn.

The report here makes very interesting reading,
and might explain a lot...

http://www.battlefield.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=123&lang=en


-|steve|-