The only tank the Germans had...according to books

[-72-]

Fwiw, Burgette had 4 books (although I have only read Currahee so far).

Also along those lines, there was a book written during the war - I forgot the exact title, but it was about the Battle of Coral Sea (and had been republished by Bantam in the late 70's), and the author was seeing Me-109's everywhere.

It must have been a similar sort of thing ... when under severe threat you fall back to whatever fits -after all there is a big difference in being shot at by something as opposed to sifting through model boxes at the local hobby shop I guess.