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Tank B1 bis was superior in his armor and armament. With his 47mm gun it was stronger then Pz.Kpfw. III and IV and could only be disabled by hit to the tracks or to vulnerable engine grate on the left side or by hits from 88mm Flak-18. However B1 bis didn't have success in a combat. Badly trained crews couldn't perform complicated tasks and small radius combined with often stooping and moving through roads crowded with refuges resulted in fear of running out of fuel and often stops to refuel. First DCR never recovered from surprise done by German tanks at the moment her tanks where refueling.

Char B1 bis converted to a PzKpfw B1 (f) Fahrschulewagen

After June 1940, Germans used Char B for occupation duties (like Channel islands) as Pz.Kpfw. B1 bis 740 (f). Some had there turret and armament removed and become Pz.Kpfw. B1 (f), driver training tanks. 25 tanks had there 75mm gun replaced with flame-thrower and become Pz.Kpfw. B1 (f) Flamm. Several where converted at Rheimetall-Borsing to mount 105mm filed howitzer - 10,5cm le FH 18 Ausf Gw B2 (f).

Some surviving tanks where used by SS Tank Company of the 7th SS Freiwilligsten Gebirgsjägerdivision Prinz Eugen in Yugoslavia for occupation duties.

Here are the recommended holiday mailing dates for military mail this year:

For military mail addressed TO APO and FPO addresses, the mailing dates are:

Parcel Post - November 13
Space Available - November 27
Parcel Airlift - December 4
Priority Mail, First Class cards and letters - Mailing date is December 11 to all locations
- EXCEPT for locations starting with ZIP 093. For all locations starting with ZIP 093 the mailing date is December 6.
Express Mail - December 20 to locations where Express Mail service is available. Check with your local post office to determine which APO/FPO addresses can receive Express Mail. Note: This service is not available to ships.

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For military mail FROM APO and FPO addresses, the mailing dates are:

Space Available - November 20
Parcel Airlift - December 4
Priority Mail, First Class cards and letters - December 11
Express Mail - December 18 from APO/FPO addresses where Express Mail can be accepted. Check with your local military post office to determine if they can accept Express Mail. Note: This service is not available from ships.

Thanks for the information StayAtHomeMother

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The real reason for this was mainly due to the fact that after the First World War there was little or no money available for new weapons development. Reparations were not forthcoming from the vanquished German invader. Politicians were apathetic to the needs of the armed forces as a whole. This attitude found support within government circles amongst those who argued, quite logically, that if the German invader was prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles from developing offensive weapons (e.g. tanks and aircraft), then why on earth should the French armed forces develop them? The French State had no wish to invade Germany. Why spend vast sums of capital expenditure on an offensive weapon that would never be needed? All of this occurred at the time when the world was still in the grip of the worst recession in living memory, the Great Depression. The French government, at the time, was already committed to pouring millions of Francs into a great ‘white elephant’ called the Maginot Line. Thus budgets for the development and production of all types of new weapons systems for the armed forces as a whole, including aircraft, ships and tanks therefore suffered greatly.

Brian Wilson of Fox did a story on major U.S. travel agencies attempting a detente with france to re-energize the fading tourist business with that muslim fiefdom.

A Fox reporter approached the french Ambassador in Washington, DC which ambassador immediately snorted in derision and pushed the Fox camera away.

Astonishing as it may seem Hitler's blitzkrieg was not thwarted by millions of francs worth of whoopie cushions arrayed in the breathtaking Imaginary Line.

1960 A U.S. Boeing B-52 bomber sets a 10,000-mile non-stop record without refueling.

Oct. 26, 1962. The 744th and last Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is delivered to Strategic Air Command. The aircraft, an H model (serial # 61-040) is assigned to 4136th Strategic Wing at Minot AFB, N.D. Also on this date, SAC takes delivery of the last three (of 116) Convair B-58 Hustlers. The aircraft are assigned to the 305th Bomb Wing at Bunker Hill AFB, Ind.