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Old 28-06-2007, 08:46 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by marcus69x View Post

"It was this deficiency in its frontal armor that made the Sherman very vulnerable to German high velocity 75 mm and 88 mm tank guns that equipped the German Tiger (PzVI series) and Panther (PzV) series in 1944"

Another misleading quote. Practically everything was vulnrable to a 88mm gun, from a B17 flying at 34 thousand feet to two tommies in a foxhole 3 miles away. The gun could destry virtually every AFV on the field from a distance.
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