PPT Slide
U.S. light/medium tanks perform
superbly in the Pacific against
dug-in enemy infantry, WWI-style.
However in Europe, they are
woefully outmatched when fighting
enemy tanks. German tanks are in
their 2d and 3rd generations of
development and now on the
defensive have switched to
heavy designs to compensate for
being out-numbered by Allied
mass-produced light/medium tanks.
The U.S. will not have a heavy tank
comparable to the enemy until
late 1944….with the M26 Pershing
.. Too late to save crews
of hundreds of medium Grants, Shermans and light Chaffees from faster, more heavily gunned and armored German tanks.