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Thursday, May 25, 2017
By: JC
Tank Warfare: Tunisia 1943 - The Principle of Mass
Tanks, open desert. Infantry is optional.
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One fine morning in Africa and I'm in command of a US tank battalion. And some infantry that I left at the line of departure. The Germans, dug in some two Km from my tanks. With a mix of medium tanks and support vehicles, they chose to control the objective with their fires rather than with their tracks.
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Contact didn't come cheap. The armored tip of our spear got hit with a long range shot.
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This platoon got two tanks hit and had a hard time locating the Germans. A small rise in the terrain isolated the US platoon from the rest of the battalion. The principle of mass took a vacation from our movement to contact and the consequences were evident.
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