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Here again is Stephen Ambrose. A lot of improvement in the tank by the time the Second World War came along, and then a lot of improvements were made in the tank during the Second World War, so that the tank became the queen of the battlefield. The decisive weapon of ground warfare. Everybody had their own tanks and their own tank design and their own ideas about tank tactics.
The first to come along with a doctrine that was put into practice and proved to be in its initial use at least extraordinarily effective was the blitzkrieg method that the Germans used. There had been dispute between theorists all through the period after World War I and before World War II over what the proper role of the tank was. This grossly simplifies the argument, but in general, the old line regular infantry officers, the men who were in their 30s in World War I, who would be the general officers in World War II, tended to regard the tank as an auxiliary to the infantry.
His function was to support the infantry in the attack or in defense, so that the right way, to make that decision, to say the right use of the tank is to support the infantry, then dictates the design of your tank. If that's so, if that's the role you're going to use the tank for, you don't want speed in a tank. You don't want a tank that's going to go faster than marching infantry. What you do want is an awful lot of heavy armor, so that that tank becomes practically a moving fortress that creeps its way along the battlefield at about the pace of an advancing soldier and provides protection for him and provides, he can get in behind it and provides firepower for him in front.
You want as much firepower as you can get. You're not concerned about how many miles to the gallon that tank's going to get or what its range is. You want a tank that is designed less for operating on a road at high speed, or then you want a tank that is capable of getting across ditches and through muddy fields. And most of all, you organize the tanks by spreading them out. If their role is to protect the infantry, you've got to spread them out with the infantry, so that there is a battalion of tanks in every division of infantry, and they're divided up into their respective companies and fed out among the regiments and the battalions of the infantry. And the tanks operate then directly with the infantry as individual weapons.
Again, I know I'm grossly oversimplifying here. But the other way of looking at tanks was the proper role of the tank is an independent one that the great advantage the tank brings to you is mobility and speed. And the way to utilize mobility and speed is to build light, fast tanks that can operate on roads and get a lot of miles to the gallon so that their range is very great, and put them all together into armored divisions and let the infantry break through the enemy's prepared defensive position. But once the infantry is broken through, then you bring the tanks in as units and they pour behind the enemy lines and encircle the enemy and cut off his frontline troops and separate them from their headquarters and from any hope of reinforcement and shoot up headquarters back in the rear and, in short, have this independent function. The victors of World War I tended to look at the tank in the first way, that is, its proper role was with infantry because, after all, they won the First World War and they won it with infantry.
So they didn't see much point in changing tactics or doctrine. The people who lost the First World War figured they'd done something wrong and they'd better figure out some new doctrines and some new tactics, and the Germans did. Even though it was British authors, Liddell Hart and J. F. C. Fuller, most of all, who foresaw the role of the tank as an independent weapon, it was the German serving officers who picked this up, Guderian, Rommel, and Hitler was a revolutionary in his attitude towards weapons. And Hitler had been at the cutting edge of the First World War. He'd been a runner in the trenches on the Western Front. It made an impression on him like anybody else that was in that hell that was the trench system of the First World War.
Hitler was determined to avoid that if at all possible, and he was very keen on new ways of doing things and new ideas. And he was thus receptive to what his tank commanders, his younger tank commanders, were telling him about the possibilities of the tank. And so, blitzkrieg became the doctrine of the German army, and the tank took an independent role. And the German tanks of 1939-40 were characterized by lightness, speed, maneuverability, durability, and range. Germany's strategic needs changed in the course of the war.
By 1942, Germany was on the defensive, no longer on the offensive. And for defensive warfare, those light fast tanks were inappropriate. Now the Germans needed big heavy tanks that could bolster an infantry position and take on a defensive role, so that Germany's tanks tended to grow during the war and then grow some more and then grow some more until they doubled and then doubled again in size. And the armament went up from 50 caliber machine guns to 75 millimeter cannon to 88 millimeter cannon, and the armor thickness increased on them. And they got bigger and bigger and bigger, up to 68 tons, and then even bigger than that, and consequently they got less and less miles to the gallon. And so their range was reduced drastically, until by the climax of the war, the winter of 1944-45, the Germans were turning out their new Tiger tanks, which were twice as big as any tank that the Americans had, and almost four times as big as the tanks Germany was using, the Mark I and II at the beginning of the war, carrying an 88 millimeter cannon, a formidable weapon, that German Tiger tank, but terribly clumsy.
And awfully slow, with very little range to it. The Sherman tank, the basic American tank of the Second World War, was a relatively light, relatively lightly armored, not really very well armed, it carried a 75 millimeter cannon. But it was fast, it was maneuverable, it was small, it was half the size of a Tiger.
The Tiger got a third of the mile to the gallon of gasoline. The Sherman was close to three miles per gallon of gasoline, that's nine times better. And the Sherman was small and compact, relatively, so that for the same deck space that would get you 100 T-34s across to Europe and into the battle, with the Sherman you could get 200 into the battle. American tankers complained all through the war and have complained to this day about being inadequately equipped to fight against Panzer regiments and divisions, because the Tiger and the Panther, the Preceder and German tanks in general, were tank for tank better than the American tanks. But, you didn't have to fight the Tiger face to face, gun to gun, you could slip around, you could move so much faster than it could. It had such a slow traverse to it, also you had so many more Shermans, the tactics were developed by the tankers in the course of the Second World War that two guys would spot a Tiger and they'd call in two more Shermans and they would circle around and keep it occupied and guys would get in on the side of it and then fire into the boogie wheels. And decommission that tank.
And it was done over and over again. And what storytelling by Stephen Ambrose on the weapons of war and terrific explanation of the differences in these tanks and their very functions. And my goodness, the difference in what the Germans were looking for in the beginning, speed, and as time went on, size. It's like David and Goliath in the end, huge opponent, the other guys got the slingshot. There are ups and downs, you have to make choices and trade-offs in the weapons of war and that's what we learned here. The Germans in the end went for the size, we went for the speed and the mobility and the range.
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