Comments by "Nick Danger" (@nickdanger3802) on "The US Tank War With Rommel's Afrika Corps | Greatest Tank Battles | Timeline" video.

  1. Where were about half of 8th Army's tanks made?
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  2. 1940 British Expeditionary Force (BEF) evacuated from France. 1941 Red Army pushed from the new border in Poland to Moscow.
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  3. Tank Parade At El Alamein (1942) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLWojSd8IJU&t=1s
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  4. ​ @youraveragescotsman7119  First combat with the Heer. As I understand it. 1940 The 400,000-man BEF was the largest fully motorized force in the world. Fairly certain some of the 3.3 million Germans were engaged with French forces and France had the largest army in Europe and more tanks than Germany. 1941 In five months, the Axis advanced 800 miles on a front that became over 1,000 miles wide. The Red Army had over 20,000 tanks. Up to 1942 the only light anti-tank weapon in Heer inventory was the 7.92mm AT rifle. The only AT gun was the 37mm, DP 88's belonged to the Luftwaffe which had a separate chain of command. Tanks; Pz I, Pz II, Pz III with 37mm, Pz 38t with a different 37mm and Pz IV with a LV 75mm. SP guns and tank destroyers were next to non-existent. 1943 The Germans had 3 years' experience, Tigers and up gunned Pz III's and Pz IV's. The first time US armor met German armor the US had the already outdated M3 medium. Hansard WAR SITUATION HC Deb 11 February 1943 on line
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  5.  @youraveragescotsman7119  My point is, in Britain's, France and USSR's first land combat with Germany it could not have gone worse for them if it had been planned that way. Like Kasserine Pass for the USA.
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  6. Rommel was not at Alamein when this battle started.
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  7. In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Rommel
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