Exercise Dracula
Дата: 20.07.2014 14:03:41
P_M_K, on Jul 20 2014 - 11:45, said: It's a bit ironic that most people on here tend to be
prickly towards the legacy of Belton Cooper and how he distorted
the reputation of the Sherman, but are keen to condemn the Cromwell
on test reports, TV documentaries etc. The trouble we Brits
have is that we haven't yet had our own Stephen J Zaloga to put the
record straight. British tank development was far from
perfect, but it had a lot more "wins" than is generally understood.
The_Chieftain: David Fletcher doesn't count? Although one must be
careful of not reading more into the test report than the test
report said (in this case, that the Cromwell and Centaur of mid
1943 was unacceptable, especially compared to the M4 of the era), I
would also not put the test reports in the same category as TV
documentaries. Test reports tend to be comprehensive and unbiased,
not designed for good TV ratings or to encourage high sales
volumes. They are perfectly acceptable references for commentary
and conclusion.
Exercise Dracula