Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Halder's Cunning Plan to STOP Erwin Rommel | Operation Crusader 1941 Part 4" video.

  1. A very well considered coverage of an important historical event: Wild Bill on Desert War, 1941 This was a fight in which both sorts of historical perspective: the Great Man and the Great Event; theories are dovetailed in the eyes of the historian. TIK's view is that the whole thing was fallout from Halder's hatred of Rommel. That is so . . . human of him. Generals at the front are like rock stars, but they don't know how to handle the celebrity as well. In fact, generals at the front often burn out far faster than those disreputable, pot smoking, booze drinking, 'shroom eating, junk popping, rock stars* . . . and sometimes from the same drugs. Maybe the Rock Star is a more highly evolved creature? EXCELSIOR! *I'm not specifically alluding to Mick Jagger . . . or Jimi Hendrix . . . or Janis Joplin, or Kieth Richards, or Ray Charles, or Eric Clapton . . . or anyone in their backup bands . . . but I COULD be. ;-)
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  2. The 5cm PaK was a newly issued item in '41. They (German formations) had very few of them in the opening moves of Barbarossa the same year. It was not as effective as the Ach Ach, however, as the 8.8cmFlaK36/L56 could take out all enemy tanks in visual range. The PaK38 could not do so; even with tungsten cored ammunition (which was in verrrrry short supply).
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