Re: Anybody Read Pat Buchannan's Unnecessary War?

Bay Man wrote:

British performance was curtailed by poor leadership and inferior equipment. The German 88 cannon made a hell of a difference picking off tanks at great range. British tankers refereed to their own tanks has having pee-shooters on the top. The British had more men with inferior equipment, so not equal.

As has been noted in this group before, the way most armies kill AT guns is with artillery, not tanks. The British had the requisite equipment to kill those guns; lack of effective combined arms operations caused the issues. There's a good discussion of this in French's _Raising Churchill's Army_.

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: self-propelled 88s
    ... Perhaps one reason why there were no such combat vehicles in Africa is ... his earliest campaign (Czech-built Skoda 47 mm AT guns on PzKpfw I chassis, ... British tanks attacked unsupported by other arms as they often did, ...
    (soc.history.war.world-war-ii)
  • Re: Just how good was the T34
    ... -PW Griffith, British Armoured Warfare in the Western Desert 1940-43, ... useful for shooting back at anti-tanks guns. ... So the lack of HE capability in some allied tanks was a real weakness ... The German lack of HE ...
    (soc.history.war.world-war-ii)
  • Re: Allied victory: luck or inevitability?
    ... the German strong points was their use of AT guns. ... the British army brought with them ... Crisp also talked about the former cavalry regiments and their ... better armored than earlier tanks, and was still vulnerable, but it ...
    (soc.history.war.world-war-ii)
  • Re: Allied victory: luck or inevitability?
    ... It was German doctrine that their tanks should fight ... > concealable AT guns. ... the British army brought with them ... North Africa was Erwin Rommel. ...
    (soc.history.war.world-war-ii)
  • Re: Tiger Tank question
    ... reluctant Marshall and McNair were to abandon ... talk of 'protection' of troops from enemy tanks rather than 'the destruction ... And this doctrine *was* carried through into operational planning for the US ... deployed on the eve of a major operation - the US and British Army ...
    (soc.history.war.world-war-ii)
Loading