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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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Anonymous said...
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WWI British tank using a carrier pidgeon for communication. Wireless sets of the time were not rugged enough or small enough to be transported in a tank.
The creator of the German Panzerwaffe, Heinz Guderian, was a communications officer during WWI. He insisted that all German armored vehicles be equipped with radios. That little fact was a major reason the Germans were so successful early in the war. French, Soviet, and British tanks used mainly flags to signal to each other.
Brigadier Major Mike
Barn Army Historian -
1/11/11, 10:08 PM
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toadold said...
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IIRC the French tanks at the start of the German invasion actually had better guns and armor than the German ones but the lack of co-ordination due to lack of communications got them flanked and shot up the kilt and negated their mechanical advantages. The communists infiltration of the French army didn't help either. Tanks went obsolete rapidly during WW II. One year a design would be king of the hill the next it would be a death trap.
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1/12/11, 12:43 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Another drawback with the French tanks was the fact that they had Frenchmen in them.
Tim -
1/12/11, 8:32 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Sage observation, Anon.
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1/12/11, 11:02 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Sometimes the network goes down.
Casca -
1/12/11, 11:45 AM
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Kristophr said...
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Frenchmen CAN fight, as long as they are not lead by Frenchmen.
Napoleon was a Corsican.
Joan d'Arc was a French Woman. -
1/12/11, 3:05 PM
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DougM said...
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Grabbing and eating that dove extended the war for two years.
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1/12/11, 3:38 PM
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Hell_Is_Like_Newark said...
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Tanks went obsolete rapidly during WW II. One year a design would be king of the hill the next it would be a death trap.
I read 'An Army At Dawn' that detailed the feeble American tanks (the General Lee was a poor excuse for a main battle tank) against the German units. Death traps! The Army doctrine was to destroy tanks with mobile tank destroyers... not take the Germans on with another tank. Even after a full year of failure, the United States still did not field a heavy tank. -
1/12/11, 5:30 PM
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