[TML] Spam: Re: Molding Ships

[Leon Wu]

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> From: tml-bounces at travellercentral.com [mailto:tml-
> bounces at travellercentral.com] On Behalf Of Charles Prevatte
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:54 PM
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> Subject: Spam: Re: [TML] Molding Ships
>
> We started with far less effective weapons.  The USA did not
> even
> have a heavy tank until the last 18 months of the war in europe (the
> Panther) and our Shermans and Stewarts took a terrible beating from
the
> Panzer and Tigers with their bigger guns and heavier armor.  One
fameous
> US
> tank commander had 3 tanks shot out from under him in one day.  What
we
> had
> was more.  More of everything, compared to the Germans and a safe
place to
> build everything.  The USA has been very lucky, we have never had to
fight
> a
> world war on our own soil.

Ummm, I think you meant the US did not have the PERSHING until the last
few months of the war (wikipedia says it entered service in Feb 1945).
Either that or the Germans left the keys in the tank...