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Commemorating that time the U.S. Army thought they could make an anti-tank weapon on the cheap by thrusting rifles through tank tracks.

Victors write history, and yet it was ex-Wehrmacht servicemen that wrote how WW2 is taught today by publishing their lies and propaganda (see, for example, Franz Halder, who started the idea that Germany was fighting a "noble war" and that there was a strong line between Germany's people/armed forces and its Nazi leadership). Besides that, there's the misconception that German fighting spirit and technological advances during WW2 exceeded everything the world has ever seen, which is... yeah, I don't need to elaborate.

Oh, and then we also have the commonly-held belief that Imperial Germany was no less evil than France or Britain and not an aggressor on international scale ("Weltpolitik") together with its criminal Austro-Hungarian ally (all of which is very obviously BS). People also think that the Versailles Treaty was responsible for WW2, even though it was extremely generous and the blame should go (yet again) to German aggression.

Victors don't write history, Germany does. I don't understand how a country that clearly failed miserably in its sinister attempts of gaining world domination receives so much praise. Even to this day, myths like alleged German "efficiency" dominate the internet. The most overrated country in the world without a doubt.

PS: After months of having it delivered, I now finally have the time to read German Atrocities 1914: A History of Denial. It's going to be beautiful, I just know it.

One that I've been meaning to read is "Stranger to Myself". My understanding is that, expectedly, it does somewhat embellish things to make its point. But, at the very least, it proves pretty conclusively that the Germans knew what they were about, even if sometimes it was generally not talked about.

Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy is a must read.

https://www.amazon.com/Wages-Destruction-Making-Breaking-Economy/dp/0143113208

It is also free in Library Genesis if you know how to search for it.

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>The truly weak spot of the Panther is its final drive, which is of too weak a design and has an average fatigue life of only 150 km.

Per the postwar equipment review, it's combat debut in Germany wasn't all that bad in terms of mechanical reliability. Despite what the official Ordnance narrative would like to have us believe, the rigorous testing demanded by AGF did have a positive impact on its performance in the field. If Ordnance had had its way, then yes, the T26 would have seen combat in 1944, but it would have been on par with the Kursk Panthers. Plus the Super Pershing was a regular Pershing pushed to ~50-tons without a reworked final drive or improved engine, and it did fine enough. I personally rate the Pershing's combat debut as a success, although these things are subjective.

And certainly if Downfall had gone through, then the Pershing would have improved. Barnes cared a lot about his pet heavy tank project, and it's likely he would have intercepted every repair depot report he could get his hands on.

> People like chieftain argue that had it been deployed earlier it would have been a buggy mess.

Jumbo got the job done in the interim. Could have used more and more sooner, but 250 Jumbos, all of which were in the hands of the troops, is nothing to sneeze at. Plus by February of 1945, only 20-30 of the original 250 Jumbos were knocked out. If the US was truly as starved for armor as some circles would have us believe, you'd think the tank that was purpose-built for taking hits and spent most of its time as the vanguard for armor formations would have lost more than that.

>people won't wank over it and give it benefits of doubt like they do over the panther had it been forced into deployment during its beta stages.

Pershing had enough side armor to protect it from 1939-era tank guns. That's already leaps and bounds over what the Panther was working with.

Thanks. It's a modified "Me explaining" meme derived from a scene in the 2019 movie The Lighthouse. Somebody was going to make the meme eventually. William Dafoe is just too batshit not to

I'm sure the tens of thousands of gay men who served in Allied Armed forces during WW2 feel fantastic about crushing a genocidal regime that was imprisoning their own.

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Out-Under-Fire-History/dp/080787177X

Is a great book on the subject, just how many gay people there were and how the more libertine attitudes of Europe (that soldiers were exposed to) at the time helped inspire the gay rights movement in the US

It was something i read on a wiki style site citing Walter J. Spielberger's Panzer IV & Its Variants