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The_Chieftain: That paper and EE's analysis has been the subject of some discussion in the past. The question is the frame of reference: Doyle is adamant that German quality control for Panzers was never decreased nor the standards lowered during the war. (Note, panzers, other vehicles like jagdpanzer deliberately used lower quality plate as that was what was allocated as available). The obvious way to parse this dichotomy is to consider the possibility that what the US considered critical characteristics were not what the Germans considered to be critical.    The "hardness" statement, incidentally, doesn't necessarily get disapproven even if one accepts the DTIC report at face value. The production ratings for hardness of the German plate was higher than that of the US, it would be other factors that the US failed it on.