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In Reply to: RE: About radios in warfare? In fact, any materiel? posted by Timbo in Oz on February 05, 2017 at 12:52:14
The conversion of Pz III production to the assault gun StuG III seems to be one of the better use of materiel and manpower. In order to make an effective weapon, based on pre-existing tooling.
I believe that all variants of the StuG III killed more Russian T-34, than all other tanks. Something close to 10:1 kill ratio.
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and I'll come back to that. But .....Russia won Barbarossa in 1941, just. With almost no help at all, from the Western allies. Without many T34s too.
Because they did and had got their factories back behind the Urals, they were going to win and Germany was going to lose.
Just as the USNavy did at Coral Sea and Midway, just.
Took Russia three and half years to defeat Germany and its allies and the USA and its allies three years to defeat Japan.
The STUGs - were originally intended to support the infantry in attacks with short 7.5cm low-velocity guns.
They were given long high velocity guns, urgently - in consequence of the failure by Germany in Barbarossa. Unintended consequences at work.
Not as flexible as tanks, with the same guns, and very good for lying in wait. And, yet more flexible than towed Anti/Tank guns.
So, this shift within the Wehrmacht wasn't a sign of victory, but of defeat. It's a defensive posture weapon. As were the Tiger and Tiger II.
One asks oneself why Hitler's Germany went to war, with the aim always being Russia? Because that always was his aim, and he was running the show.
Coral Sea just looks like a simple draw. One smallish IJN carrier sunk. But, two big carriers out of the picture, one because its aircrew had gone, and the other badly damaged, and both go back to Japan for a long period.
USN loses one over-large carrier and patches up Yorktown at Pearl.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 02/06/17 02/06/17
After Zhukov counterattacked in Dec., 1941 and after Midway in June, 1942, the ultimate outcome was decided.
Stalin, eventually, learned to listen to his generals, but in early 1942 his meddling cost an awful lot. Hitler (thankfully) never learned the lesson.
Very sadly, General Sherman was right. "War is all hell."
Eli D.
Nearly ground 75% of all combat worthy German armor into dust. Not sure Germans had any major counter-offensive armored operations on the East, after Kursk debacle.
I guess the 6.SS-Panzer push against the Russians in Hungary, 1945 (Operation Frühlingserwachen). Which ground down whatever German tanks were left in the arsenal.
Battle of Bulge & Nordwind destroyed majority of remaining German armor on the West.
no german radios here ... yet.
a little OT but still WWII ... rca ar88. I've used for years, bone stock, untouched ... doesn't got hot even after hours of use ... as sensitive as my 67' eac r390a (not as selective, obviously). been slowly changing leaky caps. nice radio.
best,
mike
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