Creating the Battle of the Bulge.....Wacht Am Rhine (1 Viewer)

Great pic and interesting info. I remember reading where the germans would try and explode shells above these open topped AFV's to kill the crew with shrapnel!!! Nasty.
Mitch

panda1gen said:
Thank you, glad you enjoy.

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The US M10 was obsolete by the Battle of the Bulge, but production had already been switched to the 90mm armed Jackson and many of those were also present in the battle. In British service as the Wolverine, many had been upgunned with the 17pdr and named Achilles. Unlike as with the Sherman, the US did not adopt British nomenclature.

The M!0 was only good at relatively short range or against relatively more weakly protected German AFV's such as the Pz4. Although this was still the workhorse of the panzer divisions Panthers, Tigers etc were more common in the elite Waffen SS units facing the Allies in the Bulge, which frontally at least, the M10 would struggle to penetrate. The many weaker German Volksturm units only had StuGs in support, so the M10 could be useful against many of them, especially in a flank shot.

The open top and relatively slow traverse were the main operational problems for troops and despite US doctrine for tank destroyers to support tanks, in practice M10s were reported to fire many more HE than AP rounds, similar to the tanks they were supposed to support. However, given the scale of the battles in NW Europe and the relative scarcity of AFV's on the ground, this may not be too surprising.
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Panda, the market garden and bulge are the longest battle ever happened in history, almost as long as the entire WWII itself almost 5 years, February 2007, November 2011.... and still going on...{eek3}

Is Time to move on, my friend
 
debrito said:
Panda, the market garden and bulge are the longest battle ever happened in history, almost as long as the entire WWII itself almost 5 years, February 2007, November 2011.... and still going on...{eek3}

Is Time to move on, my friend
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It is not my fault the manufacturers could not keep pace with the battle - BTW have you been talking to UK Reb?:wink2:

Anyway, you are right, they both stop now.
 
panda1gen said:
It is not my fault the manufacturers could not keep pace with the battle - BTW have you been talking to UK Reb?:wink2:

Anyway, you are right, they both stop now.
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If so why Kevin and hopefully you've plans for something else and if not I got something in mind for you..............Joe
 
Great pics but, most, if not all, have been published or seen before.
Mitch
 
Mitch, one dio is about 4' by 4', I change it around, there have been other 'sets' some as small as 1' by 1' or less - done over the last 7 years or so, still have many to reduce.

For example, a ruined village

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Peiper catches a moment

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panzer grenadiers

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not much cover here

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Stug4 hunting armour under cloud cover

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