Why German Soldiers Feared American Artillery — But Laughed At American Tanks Early In The War скачать в хорошем качестве

Why German Soldiers Feared American Artillery — But Laughed At American Tanks Early In The War

In 1943, German Panzer commanders watched American Shermans burn across Sicilian plains and laughed. The tank was tall, vulnerable, and its ammunition caught fire so reliably that American crews nicknamed it the Ronson — after the lighter that "lights first time, every time." German contempt for American armor was professional, earned, and completely justified. But those same German officers, in those same battles, were experiencing something with American artillery that produced no laughter at all. Shells arriving from multiple directions simultaneously. Positions found within three minutes of occupation. Foxholes that offered no protection because the rounds detonated thirty feet above the ground. Prisoners wept during interrogations trying to explain it. This is the story of how the same army could be dangerously overconfident about one American weapon and genuinely terrified of another — and why the gap between those two reactions ultimately decided the war in Western Europe. Topics covered: Sherman tank weaknesses WWII, American artillery system WWII, VT proximity fuze, Fire Direction Center, Battle of the Bulge artillery, German assessment of American weapons, combined arms doctrine, Patton's Third Army, Normandy campaign. _____________________________________________________________ #WWII #AmericanArtillery #ShermanTank #TigerTank #WorldWarII #BattleOfTheBulge #Normandy #MilitaryHistory #WWIIHistory #Patton #TankWarfare #Wehrmacht #WesternFront #CombinedArms #HistoryChannel