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Old July 15th, 2007, 04:55 PM
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Default Re: Centurian tank V King tiger

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Originally Posted by FramerT View Post
Just from memory, I don't think it was a matter of tanks at Goodwood,but the mine fields and bridges that bottled up the Allied armor. The proceeding 1000 plane bombardment did a lot of the German armor in.
They still faced the 88 flak guns hidden. Limited infantry support meant the Germans could drill any tank with a panzerfaust.
From what ive read the 88mm guns were the main problem
Picking of the tanks before there guns were in range
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