Comments by "TheVilla Aston" (@thevillaaston7811) on "Rommel causes a British Command Crisis 1942! BATTLESTORM North Africa" video.

  1.  @aleksazunjic9672  US industry was not having to deal with air raids, an enemy that was 20 miles from its homeland, 40% of needs having to be imported, and having a war thrust upon it at almost no notice. Nobody, but nobody tells Britain about industrial production in the Second World War. The Sherman was no more use than contemporary British machines in the tank's prime task, fighting enemy tanks. The Sherman had a very high fuel consumption, a high profile, and made its crews nervous about being assigned to it due to its propensity to burn out if hit. Hence its German nicname, Tommy Cooker. It would have been better if the Russians had sent over the plans to the T-34/85, the tank that Germans really feared. It is an old wives tale that the Sherman had some sort of crucial impact on the war. In any case, as far as Desert War was concerned, the key weapon was the anti-tank gun. The 88mm for the German, the 6 pounder, and the 17 pounder for the British.
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  2.  @aleksazunjic9672  Get real. British industry 'falling behind'...but still managed out-produce Germany in every field of munitions except tanks, and without resorting to using slave labour. The facts are undeniable. British industry 'not under heavy bombing...You should have come here and told that to my aunt as she saw several hundred workers lying killed and wounded at the Vickers Armstrong factory at Weybridge on 4th September 1940. Compare that to the USA...6 six people killed by a Japanese balloon bomb. That was it, for the entire war. My parents and their friends and relations went right through the war as young adults. They have passed it all on to me. I have already forgotten more you will ever know about Britain in the war years. If you have reliable evidence that the Russians preferred the Sherman to the T-34 then bring it on here. I doubt that it was case the case with the British. My father was in an armoured formation that used both Shermans and Churchills, by his words, no one wanted to be sent to the Sherman units. A word of warning...If there is one, tiny little criticism of Britain on here, I come down on it like a hundred tons of bricks, and I do not take prisoners.
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  3.  @juliantheapostate8295  So where was the tank destroyer in 1941 and 1942?
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  4. It must be just you.
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