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Originally Posted by Erich
curious from our English forum members Jaeger has posted some important land actions of Normandie, and we refer to all the German armor losses as something they could never regain.
question: anyone ever put into effect a true loss(s) of British armor during the time frame ?
I know full well about the claims - over of both sides
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Trouble is, the two sides have tended in the past to differ in the way they have listed tank losses.
The German practice was normally to list only tanks which were total write offs as losses, while on the Allied side it was normal to list tanks which were out of action at the end of the day, even if the damage was minor and could be repaired within 24 hours.
But using the same benchmark, total write offs, we get some interesting figures ( source the poster MKenny ).
In the Battle of Normandy for the month of June, 374 Allied tanks were total write offs, against German losses of 244.
For the month of July, the figure is 522 losses for the Allies against 288 for the Germans.
A total of 896 for the Allies, against a figure of 532 for the Germans. However the Germans also lost a further 120 Stug assault guns in these two months.
I know these figures don't show us how many tanks were Ko'd and then repaired, but it is extremely difficult to find German records detailing this, so it is impossible to compare them in this way
anyway I hope it is of help
