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Post by alloydog on Sept 13, 2011 7:35:46 GMT -5
I'm running this in several places on t'internet, to get a good range of answers.
I need the names of who folk consider the top three WWII tank commanders from the US, Great Britain & Commonwealth, Germany and Soviet Union - that's three from each. It's for a set of playing cards, so I need suggestions for the King, Queen and Jack cards. Also, any suggestions for the Jokers?
Cheers!
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Post by Pouncing Tiger on Sept 18, 2011 13:49:26 GMT -5
Oh, lessee. For Britain, I suppose you have to include Montgomery. But certainly O'Conner as well. For an actual in-the-field armor commander, I think you can't do better than "Pip" Roberts of the 7th Armored.
Germany should include Rommel, of course, but also Guderian. Manstein comes to mind as well.
U.S.: Patton, of course. Creighton Abrams was Patton's right-hand man. Can't think of a third right now.
I have to do some research for the Soviets. Zhukov is right up there on the strategic level, but the Russians had some brilliant tank generals, whose names I can't recall right now. Stay tuned...
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Post by alloydog on Sept 19, 2011 4:55:59 GMT -5
I've now got this lot to pick & choose from: Great Britain & Commonwealth Montgomery x2 Sgt. Wifred Harris Bert Hoffmeister Joe Ekins S V Radley-Walters x2 David Currie VC Captain Philip Gardner VC x2 Lt Col Bob Foote RTR U.S.A. Creighton Abrams x2 Patton x3 Lafayette Pool Germany Guderian x2 Hoth x2 Kurt Knispel x2 Rommel x2 Nehring Michael Wittmann Hans Bolter Hermann Bix Barkmann Soviet Union Dimitry Lavrinenko Konstantin Samokhin Rybalko Vatutin Chernyakhovsky (the number after just refers to the number of times people mentioned them)  |
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Post by nebeltex on Oct 13, 2011 23:18:13 GMT -5
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