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Originally Posted by Raellus
For whatever it's worth, I agree with you on these points. I don't know for sure, but I think the pro-Littlefield folks are proposing that his collection could be useful against Mexican follow-on troops, after the upper-echelon, mechanized spearheads have been substantially weakened, towards the end of their long drive into NorCal, not during the initial breakthrough battles. That, to me, seems entirely feasible/reasonable.
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100% correct Raellus - I am not saying that it would be used in 1998 to stop the invasion - for one back then the 40th would have been at full strength and they would have been like who cares about some old tanks we have plenty - which is definitely not the case by April 2001
this is what you use in 2001 with no other armor available to try to push the now weakened Mexican forces, whose logistics are completely shot and whose armor, whatever is left, is worn out and low on ammo - and long after just about every anti-tank weapon they have is gone - thats when Littlefield's Collection suddenly becomes a game changer - not during the actual invasion itself in 1998
and let me add that what I mean by this statement - "What they had was mostly 50's to 60's vintage and designs with a small amount of more modern French equipment - heck they were still using Stuart tanks and WWII half tracks in their army and Toyota trucks as troop carriers. Meaning that the Littlefield tanks would have been either even or a match for most of what they had." is what they had left after the invasion got stopped in their tracks and both sides were exhausted - not to try to use it to take on full power fresh invasion forces