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Parece legal. Vou ler com calma a noite.
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Boa não, excelente!
Tem umas passagens interessantes:
"One reason there is 11,000 US tanks and tank destroyers In Germany in April 1945 is because the US decided to concentrate on a tank that was extremely reliable and relatively economical to build. And I don't think anyone would claim that the Sherman was the best tank from the perspective of the tank crew, it didn't have the best armor, it didn't have the best gun, but from commanders perspective it was an excellent weapon. There were just lots and lots of them, so they gave the commander a lot of battlefield power. "
"The whole Ronson thing is nonsense because as you well know the Germans tanks were gasoline powered also. And the whole thing about the gasoline engines being the source of the problem is a canard. If you take a look at any assessment, whether its German or American, the problem of tank fires in World War II is ammunition. The primary source of tank fires in World War II is ammunition and the reason is because you can't stop them. A tank engine fire with gasoline can be stopped, most World War II tanks had fire extinguishers so if you had a fire in the engine compartment the fire extinguishers could put the fire out as long as it wasn't too catastrophic. But an ammunition fire, once it starts you can't stop it. "
"In spite of all the stuff that's been written about the German side, the stuff that's out there is not very good. A lot of what's out there on Tiger tanks is very one sided. There are some very good Russian websites that are pointing out all the errors in those Tiger histories, you know German accounts will say "Oh Tiger regiment such and such went this Russian tank unit and destroyed 57 vehicles." And then the Russians go and look at the unit histories from the Russian side and find that the incident either didn't occur at all or the German tank claims were grossly exaggerated. So we need much more balanced work done on that, we need better stuff on the German side on the operational side."
Outra passagem também interessante:
The situation before BRAC was not very good, it's embarrassing how bad the situation was at Aberdeen, although the last curator over there really started to make some efforts to restore some vehicles. The Patton Museum always had a small volunteer staff that did a very good job at restoring vehicles, so when the tanks were still at the Patton Museum they still had some runners and the small staff there did a very good job trying to keep things going on a real shoestring budget. But after BRAC hit, it's just a national scandal. They have thrown away our history, everything is just sitting and rusting.