[mass55th]

"And the Shermans worked while the Tiger frequently broke down, ran out of gas or could not find a bridge strong enough to hold their weight."

U.S. tanks were repaired in the field. Hitler has no such repair capabilities set in place for his tanks.

[bagman]

I don’t think that’s true. It’s been quite a while since I read von Mellenthin’s Panzer Battles, but one of my take-aways from it was that you wanted to control the field after a tank battle so that you could repair your damaged (out-of-commission) tanks.