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Old June 14th, 2008, 03:42 AM
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Default US Tanks and synthetic fuel
I found this online. Any thoughts on the validity of these statements?

"In WWII, it was not unusual for German tanks to drive or be towed to the battlefield powered by flammable gas made from wood. At the battlefield the tanks would be converted to burn synthetic fuel in battle. The tide of war turned against Germany when the synthetic fuel plants were bombed and fuel production stopped. In 1944 General George Patton was speeding across Germany with the objective of being the first Allied force to reach Berlin. His forces outpaced his supply lines and his progress stopped. Patton ordered that synthetic fuel be drained from captured or abandoned German vehicles, and some of Patton's Sherman tanks and personnel carries were converted to run on synthetic fuel."

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