Best tanks of WWII

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Discover the story of how Germany's greatest tank ace, Michael Wittmann, met his end at the hands of a British Sherman Firefly during the Normandy breakout in August 1944.
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nonsense - kurt knispel , otto carius and ernst barkmann destroyed more tanks in tank vs tank engagements than michael wittmann. why would i trust a dude with a 7 minutes video on youtube who gets the basics wrong?
 

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his descreption says says


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nonsense - kurt knispel , otto carius and ernst barkmann destroyed more tanks in tank vs tank engagements than michael wittmann. why would i trust a dude with a 7 minutes video on youtube who gets the basics wrong?
Didn't Wittmann get the more favorable press ? Knispel stopped a SS enlisted man from beating a Soviet prisoner so Knispel didn't get the live that Wittmann got.
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Didn't Wittmann get the more favorable press ? Knispel stopped a SS enlisted man from beating a Soviet prisoner so Knispel didn't get the live that Wittmann got.
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greatest tank ace means talking about kills not reception in the press
 

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Then you guys should make your own videos.
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nonsense - if someone gets the basics wrong they don't get credit. i don't need to make better stuff to call out bad stuff.
 

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nonsense - if someone gets the basics wrong they don't get credit. i don't need to make better stuff to call out bad stuff.
I don't know Mark Felton is doing pretty dam well and he as a PhD in History.
It's fine to throw rocks at him the other members of our small tribe can make up their own minds.
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Did the Japanese Army use Tiger Tanks?
See Mark Felton's documentary "Japanese Tiger Tanks" and find out.
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Dimitry Lavrinenko : The Russian top ace.


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAEegQICRAm&usg=AOvVaw1W1HRYTGHIkJcvg1AwEwZm

Total number of tanks damaged and destroyed by Lavrinenko is comparatively small next to aces like Michael Wittmann (138 tanks and 132 anti-tank guns), Otto Carius (150 tanks), Kurt Knispel (168 tanks), and several others. However, almost all the German tank aces of the war fought from start to finish, so their overall results were more significant. Lavrinenko destroyed 52 tanks in just 2.5 months of fierce fighting in 1941. This was an outstanding result in the Soviet Army, and no single Allied tank officer surpassed him during the whole war.[
 

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Did the Japanese Army use Tiger Tanks?
See Mark Felton's documentary "Japanese Tiger Tanks" and find out.
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i fully watched this one - what exactly is new about it? japan tried to get specimen of everything they considered themselves 'lacking behind'. i did not not know about the tiger but i knew about the panther and the IIIs. i'm also rather sure they owned IVs.

we shipped them next to everything we had


and while the pictures look kinda 'shopped' japanese officers obviously tested the stuff they intented to purchase - everybody did and does that. we sent 08s (lugers for americans) in .45 acp to the us for testing.
 
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