I've seen early complaints that it was a step backwards from the M10/Achilles, as it didn't have a rotating turret. Other than, from what I can...
See below experience in France 1940 with Boys Rifle, from left to right, 4/7 Dragoons, 5 Inniskilling Dragoons, 13/18 Hussars, 15/19 Hussars:...
Ad Hoc firing trial of Boys rifle against Panzer I, North Africa Dec. 1941, as part of visit to Libya by Lt. Col J.A. Barlow and Major R.D....
It would appear the high kill ratios are a myth: http://tankarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/ferdinand-in-combat.html
If you read any of the reports that the British compiled on their tanks, you will see that their number one concern, almost to the exclusion of...
I have to say I've never been able to judge whether a successful Market Garden would have genuinely been a springboard for a final offensive. One...
Yes, I'm very keen to do exactly that thing. I'm not sure that Fletcher really did much research on operational experience as he states in his...
Again, we need to differentiate the points being made. Fletcher et al. alleged that the Covenanter was unusually unreliable due to extreme...
Belasar - I agree the M3 was the better tank. It also had a better level of armour protection IIRC - I think 51mm against the 40mm of the...
I think there are two issues here. The first is whether the Covenanter, as it has been alleged up to now, was kept out of combat because it was...
I should point out at this juncture that the "evidence" that the Covenanter suffered from persistent cooling problems consists of this single...
As the evidence is mounting up, it's starting to become clearer that there was nothing particularly wrong with the Covenanter, at least in...
If you were to think that any of them suddenly become more complimentary when the Sherman turns up, you'd be wrong.
Actually, I've missed an obvious point, which is that blaming loss of air pressure in the steering or brakes is a great way to disguise driver...
In response I would say: 1) I agree. 3) As far as I can tell the steering, braking and transmission were exactly the same as for the Crusader....
That may have been done in the armoured units proper, but in the dedicated Training Regiments (44th and 61st in this case) it may not have been...
I think the thing to bear in mind though is that the Covenanters in training schools were probably being thrashed. They wouldn't have had a...
OK, here are summaries from veteran accounts recorded by IWM: Just a few notes: i) If the Covenanter really had severe cooling problems, these...
Yes, I spotted that. It would be interesting to see if the cooling tests really did end in Jan '42 - that would add to the suspicion that the...
There are some interesting straight-from-the-horses-mouth memoirs from veteran Covenanter trainees (mainly drivers) here:...
