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To: AppyPappy

“Land power: The 76mm Shermans and M-36/M26’s would have given the Soviets a fit. We had several thousand of the newer 90mm tanks”

The Soviets had about 30,000 T-34s with 85mm guns. We had 2200 M26 Pershing with 90mm guns. The Soviets had 6400 IS-2,3 and 4 heavy tanks with 122 mm guns.


93 posted on 06/06/2018 1:48:44 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

76mm Shermans owned T-34/85’s in Korea. Typhoons/Tempests and P-47’s would have been the primary enemy of Soviet armor, not to mention FW-190’s.
My next door neighbor when I was a kid was a P-47 pilot and he told me that German tanks had 5 planes on them every time they appeared in daylight by the end of the war.
The Soviets would be able to reach the French border by 1946/7 but their supply lines would be done by then.


108 posted on 06/06/2018 5:10:58 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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