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[Chipmunk]

????.....don't understand that one, Peek. A 6pdr will go through the front of a Tiger at short range....why would it have trouble with a PIII? You might be thinking of a 2pdr, perhaps? The Sherman 75mm will bounce from a PIII occasionally but will mostly go through.

Yeah, I meant it's vulnerable to a 6pdr at short range but at medium range it's not. The Pz IIIL has a 50+20/curved turret front. It's my understanding that curved is treated as roughly the equivalent of 30 degree slope. The 6pdr penetration on 30 degree at less than 100m is 86 so it can get thru at that range. However it's pen at 500m is 66 so somewhere between 100 and 500 meters it loses the ability to get through. For the Grant's 75mm the figures are 73 and 68 so that can't penetrate much further out than 100m.