Ebook: World War II Infantry Anti-Tank Tactics
Author: Noon Steve, Rottman Gordon L
- Tags: Antitank weapons., World War 1939-1945 -- Tank warfare., Infantry drill and tactics., TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science., Tank warfare., Warfare & defence., History.
- Series: Elite series 124
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Osprey Publishing
- City: Oxford
- Language: English
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The battlefield interaction between infantry and tanks was central to combat on most fronts in World War II. The first 'Blitzkrieg' campaigns saw the tank achieve a new dominance. New infantry tactics and weapons - some of them desperately dangerous - had to be adopted, while the armies raced to develop more powerful anti-tank guns and new light weapons. By 1945, a new generation of revolutionary shoulder-fired AT Read more...
Abstract: The battlefield interaction between infantry and tanks was central to combat on most fronts in World War II. The first 'Blitzkrieg' campaigns saw the tank achieve a new dominance. New infantry tactics and weapons - some of them desperately dangerous - had to be adopted, while the armies raced to develop more powerful anti-tank guns and new light weapons. By 1945, a new generation of revolutionary shoulder-fired AT weapons was in widespread use. This book explains in detail the shifting patterns of anti-tank combat, illustrated with photographs, diagrams and colour plates showing how weapons