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Old June 25th, 2003, 07:34 PM
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The thing about the French tanks was that they fought in platoon strength and in many cases the Germans captured the French tanks intact and many had not fired a shot. So really so few tanks together meant that they were quickly over-powered by the vast number of German tanks.

This is a good site for French Tanks:

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/f...nce-Light.html
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