Originally posted by dalem
What people are doing here, myself included, is deducing the results and type of fighting on the Eastern front, applying the same conditions to the Western Allies tank forces, and then extrapolating the result.
For instance, replace every T-34 at Kursk with M-4A3's, and the Shermans would suffer at least as badly as the T-34s did.
On the western front it didnt often play out that way because German armored forces were absoltuely bedeviled from the air, and the US especially had a penchant to halt an advance and dump truly massive quantities of artillery on anything that was obstructing their axis of advance.
IOW, the US did not fight 'heads up' or 'head to head' as the Russians did. Why? Because in the few instances they did(Kasserine being one of them), the US forces got the snot kicked out of them.
After the Normandy landing there was never a single decisive battle in the West until the Bulge, and we know who instigated that one. It sure wasn't the Allies.
And as far as that allied vs Panther meeting engagement i mention, i don't think one ever happened.
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