Developing Tank Destroyers - with The Chieftain
38K views · Feb 23, 2023 · Entertainment
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@TerryDowne · 3 years ago
The more I hear the Chieftain the more respect I have for the way the US Army made decisions in WWII.
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@dave073n · 5 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRCEPLn7L0Q&t=1683">28:03</a> - ‘wrote the book’. This is why i love this channel, a good historian discusses the subject with good historians. This channel is criminally underrated.
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@silentotto5099 · 3 years ago
With respect to tanks being destroyed by attackers they didn't know were there... I once saw an interview with a tanker talking about armored combat, and he said something like "You find out you've run into enemy armor when the tank in front of yours explodes.".
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@BlackHawkBallistic · 3 years ago
A 500 yard median engagement range is absolutely bonkers, I can't imagine how terrifying that was
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@TerryDowne · 3 years ago
"Will we get there? Probably not, but we'll have fun getting there." What a classically existential passage.
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@meddy833 · 3 years ago
Thank you for this. The Chieftain is one of the most knowledgeable Armor sources out there.<br>His chat is full of knowledgeable Armor guys and gals as well. <br>They set me straight on something I thought was fact, and I was way wrong.<br>I am glad to have played the fool to learn the lesson.<br>I instantly subscribed to his channel just like I did with yours Mr. Woody.<br>I know VALUE when I see it.
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@jeromyfisher297 · 3 years ago
Some poor sod got to pick it up! Best quote!
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@davidk7324 · 3 years ago
Great show, gents.
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@lessonslearned2569 · 3 years ago
The tank destroyer: the ultimate ambush predator.
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@davidk6269 · 3 years ago
Another great job, Woody and the Chieftain! Thank you both.
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@davidlavigne207 · 3 years ago
My favorite quote from this episode: "If you throw a log across a ditch and use it as a bridge, is it a log or is it a bridge?" [Woody] That about summed it up for me. SPG versus TD is perhaps something we'll never sort out, but I think the Americans tried their best to conform to doctrine as they saw it. What a fascinating question. You brought the right guest to help us understand the question at least Woody.
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@TerryDowne · 3 years ago
Glad to see that the Chieftain, like myself, is a Dr. Pepper fan.
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