Path: spln!rex!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!gemini.tycho.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Approved: sci-military-moderated@retro.com Return-Path: news@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk Delivery-Date: Mon Nov 12 18:06:02 2001 Delivery-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:06:02 -0800 for <sci-military-moderated@retro.com>; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:06:01 -0800 (PST) id QQloxb18860 for <sci-military-moderated@moderators.uu.net>; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:49:37 GMT id 163Shj-000D6b-0V for sci-military-moderated@moderators.uu.net; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:49:36 +0000 Message-ID: <rXp0zmvKvH87Ewhm@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:47:54 +0000 From: "Paul J. Adam" <news@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: "Paul J. Adam" <news@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: sci.military.moderated Subject: Re: Guns V Armour -Basic details wanted References: <2449d998.0111061116.434df945@posting.google.com> <9sc3k4$pa2$1@thorium.cix.co.uk> <9shkdh$sk5$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu> Organization: Wholesale Lunacy Content-type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Turnpike/6.00-S (<N6135gVRr04RwDCXYw4ARCickR>) To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org Content-Length: 1684 Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: b13ddff1.newsreader.tycho.net X-Trace: 1005620488 gemini.tycho.net 79562 205.179.181.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tycho.net Xref: spln sci.military.moderated:40145 In article <9shkdh$sk5$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu>, Iskandar Taib <ntaib@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> writes >The petrol I can understand - the piece of rail, hmm. But what is the >blanket for? "The team was to consist of four men, who would be equipped with a length of railway line (though where they were to acquire this from was never explained), a blanket, a bucket of petrol, and a box of matches. They would position themselves up an alleyway or alongside a house on the route expected to be taken by the enemy tank. Two men held the railway track, with the blanket draped over the end of it. As the tank passed their lair, these two charged out and rammed the rail into the tank's suspension so that it jammed the driving sprocket and track. Number Three then flung his bucket of petrol at the blanket, now tangled in the track, and Number Four struck a match and threw it at the petrol-soaked blanket. Alternatively, should there be a shortage of railway track or petrol, one took up one's station in a first-floor room with a hand grenade and a hammer. As the tank passed beneath, one leaped from the window onto the tank and pounded on the turret hatch with a hammer. When the tank commander opened the turret to see what the commotion was about, one dropped the grenade in and slammed the hatch back down. These were actually taught as practical anti-tank methods, and actually practiced as such." from "Tank Killers" by Ian V. Hogg... the chapter called "Mines, Traps and Bare Hands". -- When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. W S Churchill Paul J. Adam news@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk