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To: abb

Yes it does.

Was just reading how efficient and proficient the German crews were that manned them.

Picking off allied tanks with them one after another in North Africa.


12 posted on 07/03/2015 11:34:45 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: headstamp 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.8_cm_Flak_18/36/37/41


22 posted on 07/03/2015 11:44:35 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: headstamp 2

no Panthers were in combat in North Africa. those were PzKpfw III’s, IV’s, and Tigers.

however, on western front battlefields, the exchange rate was roughly 5 Shermans to 1 Panther. you can think of it this way... for every Panther the allies knocked out, we lost 5 Shermans in the process.


56 posted on 07/03/2015 1:07:24 PM PDT by TangibleDisgust (The Parmesan doesn't go like that.)
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