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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:47:54 +0000
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Subject: Re: Guns V Armour -Basic details wanted
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In article <9shkdh$sk5$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu>, Iskandar Taib
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