Snippet on the Tiger tank

[WarPig1976]

I think he was talking US units encountering tigers.

Yes, in Northwest Europe only from D-Day until the fall of the Reich.

[TDH]

Why did the German's do this and not that when it came to weapons development. It usually came down to one factor----- Adolf {Shickelgruber} Hitler. He didn't want a autoloading rifle like G43 he also forbid the manufacture of STG 43/44 but they built it anyways and the troops loved them. By the end of the war he was ordering troop movements for units that no longer existed.

[BushyFromOz]

Why did the German's do this and not that when it came to weapons development. It usually came down to one factor----- Adolf {Shickelgruber} Hitler. He didn't want a autoloading rifle like G43 he also forbid the manufacture of STG 43/44 but they built it anyways and the troops loved them. By the end of the war he was ordering troop movements for units that no longer existed.

im quite happy they did what they did.... they ended up losing....

[CINDERS]

He dallied in France when by rights they should have been already geared for getting across the channel after France surrendered, Fighter command was on its knees but when the British bombed Berlin they switched to London which spared fighter command as they were pounding the airfields to death. Split his fronts by attacking Russia a total case of poor tactics fighting a war on 2 fronts. Restrained his great Generals and Admirals so they could not do anything and went to war totally unprepared materials wise Doenitz wanted it to start around 1942 when the U-boat arm was better prepared to strangle England.
After the battleship Bismark fiasco stopped his fleet from doing anything period......, Held the Tiger tanks back from the beaches in Normandy where they might have had a good hand in the battle, dallied in fighter development with the ME 262 being made a bomber instead of a fighter therefore delaying its entry into the air by a full year. There is heaps of things Herr Hitl*r did that hampered Germany's war effort thank god he dallied otherwise we may have had a totally different outcome to WWII.

One thing I found interesting was the allies Great Panjandrum Wheel to break the Atlantic wall quite hilarious to watch on utube........... see below;

[Flying10uk]

I seem to recall hearing or seeing somewhere that the wheel was also tested at Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England?