Richtig. Up until the Mk IV (an Austrian tank, any good German will let you know), the Germans had cute little tanks. Nobody thought they could take the Czechs. Oops. And Rommel’s (the magnificent bastard) book? It was on the use of infantry.
I’d sure have given points to that bocage-uprooter a US armorer-artificer improvised in Normandy.
“Remember: This was a gun designed to be mounted on a plane in order to kill other planes. And Stein figured that was as good a thing as any to heave up on his shoulder and go Nazi destroying.”
Except for the fact that there were no Nazis in the Pacific theater where Stein operated. Stein’s opponents were the Japanese.
May 7th, 2012 at 10:43 am
#1 is pretty good except that the Germans didn’t have Tiger tanks when they invaded Poland. Those came later.
May 7th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
The Warsaw Uprising also came later.
May 7th, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Richtig. Up until the Mk IV (an Austrian tank, any good German will let you know), the Germans had cute little tanks. Nobody thought they could take the Czechs. Oops. And Rommel’s (the magnificent bastard) book? It was on the use of infantry.
I’d sure have given points to that bocage-uprooter a US armorer-artificer improvised in Normandy.
May 7th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
“Remember: This was a gun designed to be mounted on a plane in order to kill other planes. And Stein figured that was as good a thing as any to heave up on his shoulder and go Nazi destroying.”
Except for the fact that there were no Nazis in the Pacific theater where Stein operated. Stein’s opponents were the Japanese.
May 7th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
And I think that rifle was a pre-cursor to the M-60 🙂
May 8th, 2012 at 7:45 am
Wot no Basilone Bail?
May 8th, 2012 at 8:43 am
But….but…Robert,
Remember when the Nazi’s bombed Pearl Harbor? Senator Blutarsky would never get that wrong!
May 8th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Uh, anti-tank rifles did not have “huge” explosive shells.