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Old October 16th, 2007, 11:48 AM
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Default Re: German favour Mark IV as main battle tank?

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Originally Posted by Squeeth View Post
In Buckley's book he calculates that 70% of the German tank fleet in Normandy was no better than the Allied counterparts.
Sounds entirely reasonable to me, not unlike France in 1940 where the popular perception is often one of mark III's and IV's but the reality is more like I's & II's, each not much less laughable than the British Mk VI's, A9's etc.

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