These writings of the Tigers to be superweapons is a bit rich for me. The use of ratios used by allied tanks to overcome a tiger is even more suspicious. The main enemy for allied tanks in the Desert and Normandy was a dug in Anti tank gun.

The simple fact is that in the race between Warhead and Armour, is that the warhead will always win.

In addition we have the asymetrical fighting aspect. 'Limejuice' called on the radio and smoke deployed on the target are would destroy or chase away the threat. There is from what I gather a lot of controversy about the effect of close air support now, but still everyone agree that the germans lost their possibilitys to attack efficiently when they lost air superiority.

Another issue is that once the allies breached the front in Normandy, and their Armour could operate as intended (mobile warfare) they performed well. A role that the Tiger NEVER could do given maintenance, mechanical reliability and fuel consumption.

For me it is a great puzzle that the allies denied their tankers to use the countermeasures from the desert against the 88mm. Bricks and sandbags to act as 'skirts'

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'We march. The enemy is retreating in transport. We follow on foot.' Lt.Neil McCallum 5/7 Gordons 19th November 1942