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Originally Posted by ChalkLine
And the real reason France fell was airpower.
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It didn't help that the tanks of the day were a joke (the Matillda II for example had very heavy armour for the period, but woeful speed and a popgun for main weapon). Anti-armour weapons were also barely adequate - antitank rifles and old artillery guns firing (mainly) HE rounds.
Mind you, the Germans in the opening stages of the war weren't all that much better equipped being forced to use machinegun armed PzKpfw I's (particularly in the invasion of Poland) due to a serious shortage of proper tanks (which I believe was never made up).
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