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Old April 26th, 2008, 04:35 AM
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Post Re: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

Now for the Rusian T-34/76......

This was a very interesting chapter to me, as I knew some of the ideas talked about, but not the specifics mentioned here in this book!!

It starts off with the Russians having the biggest fleet of tanks at the time, but very lighty armoured and undergunned. As well as a great lack of the tank crews (and Commanders) experience in actual combat, besides the Spanish civil war in October of 1936 ( the T-26B performed "well" there) and attack of Finland by the Russians in November of 1939 (which did not go so well, losing 80 tanks compared to taking out a couple Finnish AT guns in the first week!!!) There was also the issue of the 45mm tank gun not being able to take out bunkers as well.......

Cheers, to be continued.

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