Germany’s problems wouldn’t have disappeared.
Here s What You Need To Remember: World War II destroyed Germany and Japan as great powers. The UK and France were left a shadow of their former selves. The USSR and the United States both emerged as formidable military powers with footholds in Europe and Asia.
Legend has it that on September 28, 1918, a wounded Private Adolf Hitler lay in the sights of Henry Tandey, a British soldier who would receive the Victoria Cross for his daring actions in engagement in Marcoing, France.
Tandey supposedly took pity on the limping German soldier, who nodded in gratitude and made his escape.
A true terror weapon.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Crew members would only have a second or two to jump from their tank, surely suffering horrific burns regardless of whether or not they survived. If unable to escape, the flames would leave little more than ashes and bones.
To Allied tank crews during World War II, the Panzerfaust was one of the German army’s deadliest weapons behind the static 88-millimeter cannon, the rocket-propelled Panzerschreck and most of all other tanks.
The shoulder-launched Panzerfaust, or “tank fist,” propelled a shaped charge warhead around 45–60 meters per second over a distance of 60-100 meters depending on the Panzerfaust 60 and 100 variants. But it was always a short range weapon, requiring German troops to sneak up close to their targets before depressing the firing mechanism.
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Vests are far from foolproof.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Although armor may stop shrapnel, most armor protection lacks coverage for the face, arms, legs and below the waist. The concussive force of explosions can also damage unprotected limbs, create traumatic brain injuries and cause internal injuries even behind body armors.
For decades, protection lagged far behind lethality on the battlefield. The only practical protection from bullets and dangerous flying objects was steel, but weight forced a tradeoff between protection and mobility; adequate protection could render a soldier perfectly immobile. A compromise of equipping a soldier with enough steel to stop light shrapnel, ricochets and other flying objects but not actual bullets held from World War I to just after the Vietnam War.