Panthers killed through the sloping front plates (sic) by American Tank destroyers and M4 Shermans with their 76mm - which raised my eyebrows a notch !

I watched for at least 40 minutes and through endless commercials and finally turned away with a severe case of Battle fatigue ! I have never seen so many Tanks knocked out- mostly Panthers and M1v's. I have been approached by a researcher for a Canadian TV series maker for a forthcoming series on Great Tank battles to be aired this fall - she wanted to know all about various Tank Battles in Tunisia - so I connected her to Gerry Chester and he has been interviewed at length on Longstop and other Tank fracas in that area such as Djebel Kournine and Fondouk - Kasserine clean up with the two Tank Bdes and with the 6th Armoured div.Ī follow up of that Tunisian series will be the Italian campaign- where there weren't really all that many Tank Battles per se as most action was of the Infantry type with Tank support as I can only recall the 5th Cdn Armoured involved in the Frosinone area where they met up with the first PZ MkV's- to their misfortune - or the short action at the Cassino Station with the 16/5th Lancers and a few panzers - Castiglione at Trasimeno - Termoli comes to mind with 4th Armoured and 16th Panzers - then the final spring campaign again with 6th Armoured on the River Po -īut really not 'Great Tank battles'- a la Kursk - or Goodwood / Bluecoat but knowing TV - they will probably make a meal out of itĪs promised - I did catch the 'Greatest Tank battles' on the history Channel here in Canada to-night -Mondays at 8p.m.PST

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