Originally Posted by
dirkdj
if you read 'The untold History of the United States' by Oliver Stone, chapter 8, you may find a different version of the history that your teacher brought to you.
Schoolbook history is usually written by the winning side with a purpose.
I like this. Citing Oliver Stone as an authority on history.
*my ribs hurt*
As to Fox3's source on the Panther:
You can head to the Wikipedia page for the Panther tank and find a similar summary. down in the bottom where the sources are, there looks to have been good research into that article. We had a discussion on Panthers/Tigers and such here (or at Jet Blast?) recently which got me looking up such things. Until I read that article, I had not idea that German steel choices for critical transmission gears were what drove their maintenance problems, but I did understand how it was that this decision was made. Hitler made a variety of similar decisions.
He was an artist, FFS, not an engineer by education.
PPS: please give that man his tank back.