I would take a Panther over a T-34. Not to try to say the T-34 is a bad tank or anything but the Panther IMO is one of the more elite tanks of the...
I mean yeah it is true that the germans were losing men but to say that the germans could not have re inforced the men in 1941? There were so many...
yes lwd i agree there were electronic devices that could be used as counters but they werent databases like say a computer or a calculator can do...
lastly as much as i like your link read the very first page on it that describes how the count was taken and then apply my argument. "Wehrmacht...
LJAD so are you agreeing with me that Tigers were often counted more than once in losses? Yes i completely agree as not just tigers but alot of...
lwd i agree with you that the accuracy of a casualty account is based off of what the person who is doing the count actually counts and how...
m kenny. your are a moron at the least. Show me a casualty record that can list the names of all the German soldiers who were killed and the date...
No simply looking at a list is not accurate at all. it is an estimate. And yes there is a science known as statistics and probability but neither...
If attacking or defending I would say a panzer VI which is a tiger not a panther which is a MK V lol
Yes most commanders are put to death for disobedience but Guderian was far to valuable to do that. Hitler tried to keep him in-active but ended up...
The mass surrending and deserting was rare in the russian army because if caught by the Germans chances were you were killed and if caught by the...
Lastly, to that older comment that continues to bother me. I have in no way said the Germans are superior to the russians. I am an officer...
Old soldier I find it hard to believe the KV-1's traverse took 120 seconds as well. Oh well. Traverse could not have meant everything as the...
No yan I mean which Tiger I model lol there was the ausf. H, H1, E and so forth.
Oh and lastly we are talking in 1941 sir. Not 1943 so Kursk and Bagration are void of this debate. One of my first comments already had said that...
Lastly I know many historians who talk about Guderian constantly as being one of the greatest commanders of the war. and many of the US military...
Now for Slonisk. Indeed many russians united to fight the germans. Also note that a quarter of a million soviets also turned against the soviet...
Ljad read any almanac for world war II casualties. you will see an asterisk that states the numbers are estimates. Furthermore a ratio of 5:1...
"Beginning from July 1942, the WED data was incorporated in the loss reporting system of the Wehrmachtverlustwesen (WVW) office of the OKW....