Tank Killers
The tank destroyer (TD) was a bold-if some would say flawed-answer to the challenge posed by the German blitzkrieg. The TD was conceived to be light and fast enough to outmanoeuvre panzer forces and go where tanks could not. This is the story of American TD Force in North Africa, Italy, and the European Theatre during World War II.early 1942 by the M6, a 3/4-ton four-wheel-drive Dodge weapons carrier with a 37mm gun mounted on a 360-degree swivel in ... would shatter the windshield and injure the driver and front crewman.48 Other than a quarter-inch splash shield on the gun, ... A 3-inch (76mm) converted antiaircraft gun was mounted in an open-topped turret, which also had a .50-caliber ... 5-inch models and in antiaircraft units with 90mm guns.52 The turret had a manual traverse mechanism instead of theanbsp;...
| Title | : | Tank Killers |
| Author | : | Harry Yeide |
| Publisher | : | Casemate Publishers - 2010-04-01 |
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