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Originally Posted by Panther Al
US Tank Doctrine as to use, arming, and training was damn near criminal during WW2.
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I definitely agree with you here, although I would point out that Speer noted that war production of tanks in Germany was partially predicated on battle-environment need; fewer were produced and sent to Italy because the Germans assumed that Italy - and based on initial surveys with their
own tanks, they were right - was poor tank country.
Then reports of lighter weight M4s traversing the terrain formerly considered "no-go" for tanks began to filter in...
Of course,
we thought the same thing about Korea and Vietnam, and in both places once we committed our armor and used it properly it did very well. Or as well as could be expected.