Panzerfaust vs Sherman: European Theater 1944–45 (Duel Ebook 99)

In the summertime of 1944, throughout the battlefields of Normandy, US tanks had been confronted with a harmful problem: the cell and lethal
Panzerfaust and
Panzerschreck anti-tank weapons wielded by the German infantry. Having solely sometimes encountered such weaponry earlier than, the US tankers had been ill-equipped to defend towards this type of assault, and the menace solely elevated because the summer season wore on.

This Duel title follows the technological battle for dominance that ensued, because the US Military devised new methods to defend towards the menace posed by the German shaped-charge projectiles. From the addition of sandbags and spare tracks to particular person tanks made by anxious crews on the bottom to the large-scale programmes put collectively by the US armies, the ebook explores the implementation and effectiveness of the varied ways employed by the tank crews, in addition to the know-how behind the anti-tank weapons wielded by their German adversaries. Drawing on first-hand accounts from the boys on the bottom, this illustrated title examines the evolving trial of power between US armour and revolutionary German anti-tank weaponry within the climactic months of World Struggle II in Europe.