“...King Tiger, awesome. All 496 of them at 12 mph cross country ...”
Haha! True that... and they had something called the “Maus” in the works too, some giant dinosaur of a vehicle. I think they made two of them, total.
Ironic, isn’t it? Guderian’s (and Rommel’s) tactics of fast, light armored vehicle Blitzkreig had turned into giant, lumbering behemoths overwhelmed by lighter, faster vehicles - doing Blitzkreig.
RE Germans:
My old man said that Frankfurt sort of reminded him of his old North Philly neighborhood... except for the accent. Ha!
“Guderian’s (and Rommel’s) tactics of fast, light armored vehicle Blitzkreig had turned into giant, lumbering behemoths overwhelmed by lighter, faster vehicles - doing Blitzkreig.”
Very sage observation. I see you as a “big picture” guy. Very annoying to those of us who wander through thousands of words, to see you distill it into a single sentence.