The Biggest Tank Battle in History Wasn’t at Kursk: The Battle of Brody in 1941 was bigger [tr]

War is Boring ^ | March 20, 2017 | Robert Beckhusen

[BlueDragon]

Consider this: what is the acme of German engineering & manufacturing as of 2017? Mercedes-Benz?

Mercedes?

How about Siemens? In comparison Mercedes-Benz is flat/one dimensional.

[PJBankard]

Or Bosch.

[M1903A1]

The Germans used to say that there were two kinds of American artillery fire...”all day” and “all night”.

[minnesota_bound]

Read the “The Last Battle” by Cornelius Ryan
It shows how brutal the Germans and Russians were.
https://www.amazon.com/Cornelius-Trilogy-Bridge-Longest-Battle/dp/B000IE8MIU

[BlueDragon]

Or Bosch.

I'm sure there's more. The one I mentioned came to mind. I'm sure I don't know the half of it (German industry, and whatever innovations they may have had, and keep coming up with).

[archy]

I remember watching an interview with a former German officer.He said the thing they feared the most was American artillery.

By the same token, as a tanker in Germany in the mid-1960s-early '70s, we were facing the Soviet 8th Guards Army and whichever tank Army was rotating through at the time, so we expected we'd be hit when a fresh one had just rotated in, but before the other had rotated out. 5 tank battalions of the 3rd armored, plus 2 from the 24th Infantry in Munich/Augsburg, and whatever tank unit was rotating through training at the Grafenwohr ranges at the time.

The first day, we'd have been outnumbered 17-1. On the second, 35-1. The idea didn't bother us a bit; all those targets! But three Russian Army Group's artillery assets firing combined time-on-target missions on a one-kilometer grid square target? Don't be there for that!