The Italian ones are new to me, only because they were never discussed. However there are plenty of records of the ones in action during the Phillipines and South Pacific Campaigns (JFK, etc.) which gave them plenty of heroic press.
Favorite Tank
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too scary, too fearsome, too armored, too hard to kill(tank - tank), too big
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what roll did the churchill realy play
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too scary, too fearsome, too armored, too hard to kill(tank - tank), too big
The tiger was a good tank. It was limited by it’s weight. I would rather have a tank that was better balanced than the tiger, the Panther, T-34 or Panzer IV.
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Alright, it’s not precisely WWII, but I think I just found my favorite tank. :-D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11511886 -
they had wood tanks though
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Panther was designed a year after Tiger so naturally it took some lessons learned from the T34 into account. Good speed, good armor. Had a great gun itself. Tiger seems like Rommell’s blend of a bigger Matilda and his 88’s.
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@ABWorsham:
If you were a ruler of a country and wanted to build an armor force from the WWII era, which tank would you choose for the job?
Panther G model with the T34-85 a close second.
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One of my favorites is the E-75 Standardpanzer. Germany’s Entwicklung series was intended to have been a replacement for its existing tank designs. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entwicklung_series . The Entwicklung series tanks were intended to be simpler, easier-to-produce, more mechanically reliable versions of the tanks they replaced. The series ranged from the E-5 (5 - 10 ton light tanks and armored reconnaissance vehicles) to the E-100 (a 100 ton successor to the Maus).
The E-75 was the intended successor to the Tiger 2 (a.k.a. the King Tiger). The E-75 was significantly better armed and better armored than the Soviets’ IS-2. However, the E-series tanks were still in the prototype phase when the war ended.
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