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Im sure if it would have been feasable to use the British gun it would have been. Im guessing it just didnt have the right kind of ammunition, sights, mount etc. You think about the vast amount of development work the germans put into the 88, multitude of different types and ammo, really did spend a lot of effort on it.
Plus I think the myth around the dread 88 is a bit overblown in hype down the years (but then Ive never been shot at with one!) and its easy to think that the Germans didnt have any problems with the gun or interservice or interrank bickering about missuse of materiel. In Von Lucks book he tooks about the fmous episode in operation Goodwood where a battery of 88's took oout 20 or so British tanks in so many minutes and that it didnt nearly happen. Apperantly the guns where luftwaffe manned and the crews only fired on the British tanks under a lot of persusian. I think weopens where drawn.
I think a lot of ther myth was down to Rommells mad tactics of laying traps for the allied armour and blasting them with dug in 88's. I guess Rommell was well known for cutting through the Prussian bullshit??
Kev
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