(3/5)TANKS! Assault Guns and Tank Hunters Sturmgeschütz

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@DonMeaker

Howdee! ... Maybe you're not right!? ... Hitler got his Iron Cross 1st class on 4th of july in 1918 from company commander major von Tubeuf! ... It's obviously not the lieutenant Hugo Gutmann. ... (source: info.kopp-verlag.de, 08.30.2010). ;-)

[TheTokkin]

Indirect artillery/mortar fire support was pioneered by the Finnish army much more so than the US army.

[DonMeaker]

@TheTokkin Indirect fire was use from WWI, Finnish artillery used wire communications to adjust fire . The US used more radio, and was eventually able shoot a multi Corps time on target mission as a matter of routine, while maintaining a high rate of advance.

[TheTokkin]

@DonMeaker The Finns had superior targeting practices that allowed them to use a small amount of often obsolete artillery pieces to destroy much larger and modern enemies.

[DonMeaker]

@TheTokkin Who did they fight that was modern? WWII USSR Artillery was horribly slow, though massive. German artillery was also slow compared to modern US procedures in WWII, and focused on direct fire.

[madhammudeux]

That American guy is so fat.

[lovefishin101]

is realy amazes me the technology the germans came up with, but it sadnes me how they gassed the jews. when you think of it they could of used them to their advantage for army and luftwaffe and kreigsmarine not only that 60% of their scientists were jews. if they didnt kill the jews and hunted off their jewish scientists they could of developed the atomic bomb and developed better weapons of mass destruction.

[DonMeaker]

@lovefishin101 When Hitler got his Iron Cross, he got it from the hand of a Jew. Hitler's WWI company commander survived the WWII having escaped to the US.

[spritz0]

Germans really suffered the most around early 1943 when they lost the majority of their air support. They really needed a LOT more Stukas and fighter escorts, but unluckily they suffered.

[tedman0674]

@spritz0

if hitler didn't wanted the ME-262 also built as a bomber, they might would have won the air back.

also think of the first stealth plane, the Horton Ho-229

[TheSpritz0]

@tedman0674 I even think the Germans actually could have saved countless field divisions and Army Groups (Army Group Center) IF they had re-directed their technology-quest to developing (first) the powered multiple-barreled mini-gun (gattling gun). So many German divisions were over-run on the East Front by Russian human-sea attacks, they literally were firing their Mg-42's until the barrels were glowing red but were simply not firing fast enough!! (reference from Battle of Berlin book)

[DonMeaker]

@TheSpritz0 The corrective action was at hand: the Maxim 08/15 of WWI had a watercooled barrel that could fire for hours at a time, but were banned by the Versailles Treaty. In response the Germans developed the 'general purpose' MG, which used quick change barrels to get almost continuous fire. Russians would continue to charge when the barrel was being changed. Often the Germans didn't have enough men and MGs to put a second MG behind the first, to fire while the first one changed its barrel.

[dominic150]

@tedman0674 How differnent the war would have been had Hitler let the ME-262 patrol as a fighter from the start instead of using it as a fighter/bomber. He didnt recognize a wunderwaffen when he saw one.

[DonMeaker]

@dominic150 Hitler's notion was to use the ME-262 with fuel air weapons to clear the amphibious beaches of Allied troops. Fortunately German Fuel-air explosives were envisioned to use coal-liquid oxygen, which they never got to work. Hitler's approach demanded two technical miracles come into service simultaneously. He only got one.

[DonMeaker]

@spritz0 Actually July 20, 1944 was about the mid point in the war for Germany with to casualties. After that time they could not trade space for time, or attack enemy weakness to get easy victories. They could not use clever tactics, rather throwing more men in vain attempts to shore up penetrated lines, then losing more men as the Allies (with supplies carried by US trucks) penetrated deeply and forced the Germans to fight their way back through Allied ambushes.