Hi All--
Alex Maiolo wrote:
>
> What's the LR content here? (Before Lonn comes to NC to kick my butt for
> filling his mail box with this tripe):
> The Germans' idea of engineering produced the finest war machines of their
> day - indisputably - but they were finicky high performance rigs, like oh,
> lessee here, a BMW, whereas the Cromwells, Shermans, Stuarts, etc were
> *total* pieces of crap, slow, high profiled, thin-armored and heavy, but
> FIELD SERVICABLE!
> One Sherman loses a turret, the other loses it's chassis. Send them back to
> the rear only a few miles, hose out the gore, assemble a new tank, press
> forward.
You forgot what is arguably the best tank of WWII: the Russian T-34.
Hardly any moving parts;-) Cranked out by the zillions, held together
with blood sweat & piss. You really only saw them stop when they were
blown up.
<land-rover-on-steroids>-ly y'rs,
Ivan;-)
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Ivan Van Laningham
Symantec
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Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70
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