World War 2 Talk - View Single Post - 8th Kri- Tanks Etc

angie999 · 15-05-2005, 05:34 PM

I cannot give details for this particular regiment, but according to Peter Gudgin, Armoured Firepower (Sutton, 1997), 12 of the A30 Challengers were issued to each armoured regiment in 1944 on the scale of four per squadron. He goes on to say that this 17pr equipped tank was not a success because it was under-armoured and difficult to steer.

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angie999 Very Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: near Bristol, UK Posts: 1,551	I cannot give details for this particular regiment, but according to Peter Gudgin, Armoured Firepower (Sutton, 1997), 12 of the A30 Challengers were issued to each armoured regiment in 1944 on the scale of four per squadron. He goes on to say that this 17pr equipped tank was not a success because it was under-armoured and difficult to steer. __________________ Angie "History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was like to know the beginning only." C V Wedgewood