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To: Snickering Hound
All of their assault guns were capable of knocking out any allied tank.
45 posted on 04/07/2018 3:44:49 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: jmacusa; Snickering Hound

>>All of their assault guns were capable of knocking out any allied tank.

Sure, with a rear shot.

But the 75mm gun on a STG III wasn’t doing much against the front armor on a IS-2 at anything beyond point blank range, and they were deployed in numbers starting in 1944 for the drive to Berlin.


47 posted on 04/07/2018 5:30:08 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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