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Old February 14th, 2003, 06:39 AM
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Erich, that is an odd one. 125 IS IIs? Reliable source? That's an impressive number!

Got a couple quotes on the tanks...
(Tim Ripley- SS Steel Storm, ISBN 0-7603-0937-X)
(Know anything about this source?)
"On 7 March... II SS Panzer Corps' attack did not get very far before it ground to a halt in waterlogged ground. One tank even sank up to its turret ring in the mud!" p. 191

(John Erickson, Road to Berlin, ISBN 0-300-07813-7)
"The main German assault lumbered to a final halt on 15 March, the tanks badly shot up or marooned in the muddy marsh of the low-lying ground of central Hungary." p. 514
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