Crazy tanks from wwii11/6/2022 ![]() ![]() Playing around with my Tiger, thinking I had strong armor and now instakills on me would be rare. Tiger! Panther! Jagdpanzer IV! Historic speaking they was tremendous beasts in the war and much better than anything the soviets could field at time! And since I see people speak that tier V is very pro-soviet, I was thinking that the tier III would be the german main playground!. So, in tier III I thought things would be better to the german side. But he was not the major problem in Tier II, since he is also very slow and at close ranger this is a serious handcap, the T-34 is the crazy thing! It's quick, have strong sloped armor that deflect anything, but odd enough, it have a strong and accurate cannon! The whole tier II, if I dont cripple him early, he too can instakill any of my tanks with a frontal shot from far away! You can say T-34 armor and speed are history accurate, true, but it cannon!? None of the other germans tanks give me such a headache in tier II! If it can find a spot where it's away from the enemies and only with his frontal armor exposed, he is almost impossible to beat. It can instakill any german tank with a good shot and is virtually impenetrable in the whole turret and in the front armor. ![]() In tier II the KV-I is a king since the germans dont have any heavy to compete. Since I'm playing in arcade, I'm experiencing both against soviets and germans at the same time, but are the soviets who annoy me most. The soviets tanks always got the upperhand. And the fact that we did so successfully is probably the biggest source of pride.I started to play not a week ago, already made to tier III, and apart from tier I where Panzer II rocks, both in tier II and III the game seens very unbalance. We did it to overcome a terrible, terrible enemy. It was funny, it was distasteful, it was crazy. It was an experience that can’t be translated. Practically everyone I knew, in those days, has died. The Ghost Army was classified top secret for 50 years. I don’t believe there was 30,000, but if we saved one life, it was worth it. We were able to get the German army to assemble opposite us, firing at us! And um, when the actual crossing was made, about 20 miles to our north, there was practically no resistance. For instance, when the Rhine was crossed. The goal was to draw fire away from the real battery to us. There were five campaigns in Northern Europe - we were in all five of them. Sarah Seltzer (SS): But, you saw actual combat. ![]() They thought they were seeing them! Imagination is unbelievable. The natives would say to each other, ‘Did you see the tanks moving through town last night?’ And they were not lying. We would turn the sound on so that it sounded like tanks moving on the roads. We would move into the woods in the middle of the night going through villages in France, Belgium, Germany. Three arms: One was visual, one was radio, and the third was sonic. And he looked at it, and he said, ‘Boom boom ha ha!’ And in four syllables, it described the mission of our outfit. And he took his fist and he rammed it down on one of our guns, and it was rubber gun, his fist bounced back. And the farmer on whose land this took place, when he got up in the morning, he saw us there. Gilbert Seltzer (GS): Shortly after we arrived in Normandy, my platoon was directed to take the place of an anti-aircraft battery. ![]() Originally aired May 25, 2019, on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. Bottom photo: Sarah Seltzer and her grandfather, Gilbert Seltzer in West Orange, NJ for Stor圜orps in January 2019. Middle photo 2: Gilbert Seltzer eating lunch at Pine Camp, Watertown, NY, during the spring of 1941. Courtesy Ghost Army Legacy Project, The George William Curtis Collection. Top photo: A young Gilbert Seltzer in uniform in October, 1942, after graduating from Officer Candidate School in Fort Belvoir, VA. At Stor圜orps, he sat down with his granddaughter, Sarah, to remember this unusual outfit. From inflatable tanks, to phony convoys, to spreading misinformation in bars, they used any possible trick to fool the enemy. He had been selected to lead a platoon of men in a unit dubbed the “Ghost Army,” made up mostly of artists, creatives and engineers. Soon after he joined the Army, he was told he would be put on a top-secret mission - and an unconventional one at that. Gilbert Seltzer was an architectural draftsman when the World War II broke out. ![]()
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