EXIT HEAVY TANK
FIRE-POWER, NOT BULK Recd. 10 p.m. Washington, March 11. “Sixty-ton tanks will disappear from battlefields before the war ends because fire-power, not bulk, is the test of any tank.” Major-General Campbell, Chief of Ordnance, told the Associated Press this when referring to reports from Tunisia that the Americans had nothing to equal the German Mark VI. 62-ton tanks.
Major-General Campbell said the Americans had four types of mobile field guns ’that would, and had, put shells through the German armour. The Americans built 60-ton tanks more than a year ago, but the armoured forces decided against them because they were too heavy and unmanoeuvrable.
“We are very prone to become confused over the tank’s real purpose here,” said Major-General Campbell. “There is no excuse for any tank except for its fire-power. We knew eight months ago that the Germans were about to spring a new heavy tank on us. We believe our solution, with big mobile guns, is better than the Germans’ heavy tanks.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 60, 13 March 1943, Page 3
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