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Just arrived from the UK going to be interesting looked at a couple of pages at the appendices where the author states if they had had the Pershing earlier (Nov 1944) the Ardennes may not have happened the way it did.

He also stated that arrogance led to the slow way better tanks were forthcoming rather than what they focused on - M4 production.
Lastly their 3 main adversaries the MkIV with the HV 75mm, Panther and the King Tiger with the HV 88mm with AP doing 3,250fps.
Just 2 snippets about engagements - one instance a Panther fired and knocked out a Sherman through a brick wall, another fired through an already knocked out M4 to kill another a through and through shot.

I am looking forward to reading it as some doco's I have seen they state engagements between the MkVI Tigers and the M4 were few and far between after the landing.
Which is hard to believe given the numbers of M4's that were running around.

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