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Patch download diversion - The Bulldozer Debate Part Two - 11/3/2004 2:55:40 PM

strawbuk

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Remember the 'my Kamatsu is bigger than your CAT' stuff on bulldozers and engineering? I give you here a great example of bulldozers in action (and a driver with balls of steel)

Kohima - April 1944

From Garrison Hill the the land fell a 100 feet in four terraces, the drop from one to the next varying form 10-40 feet. The topmost terrace was a club badminton court, then a tennis court then the DC's bugalow (a 30 foot drop), then a garden (Note that the IJA and the 2nd Dorsets trenches are seperated by barely a tennis court...) For some reason it took an attack by the Dorsets to establish that the tennis court was on second terrace, not on top terrace as first throught (obviously no pre-war club members) and hence big enough to put a Lee tank on to fire point blank at Japanese bunkers around the DC bungalow which were stopping the Dorsets clearing it (with me so far?).

Remember that all slopes and surfaces are slippy as hell and under fire of IJA LMGs, the odd AT gun and one 75mm, all point blank, so even if it gets there tank still has to maonuvre on postage stamp (remember fixed 75 on a Lee...) and not get into known line of sight of AT gun.

So a Royal Engineer driver takes his (unarmoured) bulldozer, followed by a Lee, on the road around the IJA positions, calmly builds a track up to the terrace (it's like Romans at Masada isn't it?), then driver gets off and hitchs tow cable to Lee to start to pull the Lee up the still steep track. Unfortunately the cable started to slip, the dozer guy stopped to look at when the tank driver hit reverse, pulling the doxer back on to the Lee and both slide back down the slope.

A few day later they got a Lee down a 30 foot terrace (pretty steep it appears) on the tennis court by accident; the tank driver was edging towards bank to see if possible, decide 'hell no' but then edge gave way and Lee toboganed down, crushing a bunker on the way. Some how extracted itself and manouvred to fire at IJA bunkers ONLY half a tenis court away - strangely the IJA left....

Adapted from 'Burma the longest war, by Louis Allen' once described as a 'bit dry' by some on this forum

What they would'nt have done for Churchills eh ? Mountain goats with tracks.

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RE: Patch download diversion - The Bulldozer Debate Par... - 11/3/2004 5:36:49 PM

Montrose

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Heh - I like that book myself too.

Have you reached the description of the Japanese anti-tank minefield which sprang up overnight and involved some unused aircraft ordinance yet? I won't say it just now in case you haven't but it was my favourite part of that book. Do you think we should campaign for it to be included in WitP 1.4?

< Message edited by Montrose -- 11/3/2004 3:38:09 PM >

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RE: Patch download diversion - The Bulldozer Debate Par... - 11/3/2004 5:45:37 PM

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Oh yes - I also like the improved AT road block - a stone wall a tank was about push through when luckily the driver noticed 40 odd 37mm buried in it.

Just buring time until THIS LOT ALL GET OFF THE BLOODY SERVERS and then I will get the p****.

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RE: Patch download diversion - The Bulldozer Debate Par... - 11/4/2004 12:37:49 AM

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Going from memory I was thinking of the British tank commander who was leading his squadron near Mektila IIRC. In a morning attack he saw some strange bumps scattered over a field which he had to attack through, bumps which weren't there on the recce the day before.

Taking his service revolver, he dismounted from his tank and (everyone thought foolishly) walked towards the enemy lines in order to inspect these bumps. On reaching the first one he saw that the bump was caused by a disturbance of earth around a small hole. The hole was just big enough to accomodate a Japanese soldier crouching down who was looking back up at him. In his hand was a hammer, and between his knees was a 250kg aircraft bomb, pointing upwards.

The Japanese soldier had been ordered to detonate the bomb with his hammer when a tank passed nearby, and obeying his order to the letter he just watched as the British tank commander pulled his revolver and shot him. The tank commander then walked to all the other bumps each of which similarly contained a soldier and a bomb, shot them all, and walked back to his tank.

I still haven't figured who was bravest, the Japanese for calmly waiting for death and obeying their oorders to the end, or the Brit tank commander who must have been wondering when one of them was going to hit their bomb and take him with them...

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