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Old November 19th, 2007, 09:15 PM
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Default Re: APCs in WWII

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Originally Posted by FramerT View Post
The Americans used them as early "tank-killers" so I can't say the Germans were the only ones who used them incorrectly. The Germans needed them for their engineers/reconnaissance and maintantaince people especially in the swampy land of the Soviet Union.
So if they were tank-killers they were no longer APC's right, they became a motorized antitank gun (actually GMC - Gun Motor Carriage) on a chassis common with the infantry carriers (APC).
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