Marek Tucan -> (6/24/2003 3:31:34 PM)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Belisarius [B]I'll second you on that, Charles. The Germans had excellent field repair shops (and a truly devoted mechanics corps..). Short of a completely burned out tank, most "destroyed" tanks were operational a few days later, or cannibalized for parts. They went to great lengths recovering disabled tanks, even under fire. Every division had at least one, if not many, tank repair shops. If this was a practice adopted due to the shortage of new tanks, or just a standard army procedure is beyond my knowledge, but my guess is the former. Anyway, the English, Russian and U.S. troops all noted the German efficiency and probably adopted their own versions. Putting extra rounds in a dead tank was, AFAIK, practice on all sides, as HEAT does very little structural damage to a vehicle = easy claimed for repairs. [/B][/QUOTE] I believe the Russians were also quite good in fast repairing - at least I've read quite alot of German field repair stations were composed mostly by HIWIS wit a minimum of German crew, because the Russians were able to fix the damaged tanks fater than the german mechanics... And I've also read that it was quite common that say a T-34 was claimed destroyed but was repaired, re-crewed and back in combat within few hours even in the case of quite serious damage...
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