Although inadequate armour was a major factor, it had as much to do with the fact that the british fought there turrets with much ammunition in them, rather than in the magazines.
This was apparently due to the fact that our ammunition feeding system was slow compared to the Germans. An equal factor was that we had very poor sighting systems so the answer was to fire twice as many rounds. Which our boys did.
Now if they had had UAV`s sighting for them (to regain the tracks) you would have seen the following.
[URL=http://uav.navair.navy.mil/pioneer/video.htm]
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