re: #328 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
Also, infantry make perfectly good tank-killers if you give them something good (panzerfausts) to fight with and not ‘sorry if I scratched your paint” bazookas.
True, but by that point we’d already decided to trade lives (our tankers) for faster/easier production in the M4. Dead tank? Hose it out, patch it up & stick another crew in it. Too badly damaged? Here’s 4 to replace it.
That Pzkfw V might take out 6 Shermans. But there was always 7, 8 & 9 moving around to attack that weak side plate…