All we ever see them in depictions is from the top. How savvy is the average ASL player at identifying these tanks when directly facing the business end, facing the thick frontal armor?Yes. Chuckles to himself.
I've seen sets of aircraft identification cards but not armour. Very nice and quite handy.All we ever see them in depictions is from the top. How savvy is the average ASL player at identifying these tanks when directly facing the business end, facing the thick frontal armor?
My takeaway... the Americans were expecting to face Soviet tanks!Can you correctly identify the following vehicles from the front as seen in diagrams from US Field Manual 30-40, Recognition Pictorial Manual on Armored Vehicles, 1943?
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Kinda what the Allied ground support pilots reported as their mission kills.Tiger. Tiger. Tiger. Tiger.
Tank, truck. Both start with a " t " and end with a " k ". Close enough.Kinda what the Allied ground support pilots reported as their mission kills.
Allied ordnance cleanup teams which went in later to remove and neutralize hazards of pilot-reported wrecked tanks turned in lists which read more like
Truck. Truck. Truck. Truck.
Instead of army flash cards, those pilots should've studied ASL Chap H, eh?
That was good!Tiger. Tiger. Tiger. Tiger.
Left Side Right Side
1a. KV-1 1b. T34
2a. M4 (75) 2b. M4A3 (76)
3a. Churchill 3b. Pz IV
4a. Tiger 4b. Panther
Every infantryman.Who was it that quoted? "To the Infantryman, every tank was a Tiger."
To the tanker and to the ground attack pilot every tank was a Tiger.Who was it that quoted? "To the Infantryman, every tank was a Tiger."