Volcano Man Wrote:Here is something I just found... Quote:... This type of fording requires careful preparation of the tank and the ingress and egress sites on the banks of the water obstacle. ...
This is, incidentally, exactly why DD equipped units in the various PzC editions should NOT have the amphib flag checked. The DD capability was used - as far as I'm aware - exactly twice. Once on the morning of 6th June 1944, and a second time during the initial phase of the assault across the Rhine in Op PLUNDER and Operation Whatever-The-US-Crossing-Was-Called. Both of them were one shot deals - the DDs were carefully teed up over a period of weeks and months for the opening stages of each Op, the "GO" button was pushed, and away they went. They did not just float across rivers whereever and whenever the mood took them.
Regards
Jon
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