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The Goderich Signak Star, Thursday, October 13, 1966
ontgomery's Astounding Decision
By' . MacLeod Ross
The third part of a four.'part
�cerias "Tanics—A dliiUlio ." "
- The ,tattle front now moved
froth Africa to Sicily and .Italy.
In Noevmber 1942, Montgounery
reported to the War ,Office from
Tunisia, that he wantetf nothing
but the American 75mm gun
in • this Tanks, which, by now,
were virtually 100 per cent S,her-
marus. This astounding decision
came in spite of his experience
of the German 8&rnm A/T guns;
in spite of theisuccess of the
British 17 -pounder A/T guns
which he had used on the M'ar-
eth bine; in spite.of the -appear.
ance of the heavily armored
German Tiger Tank, with its
88mm gun (Pak. 431, especially
designed or Tanks. (The Ger-
man 88mm A/T gun was the
L.71, a ,converted anti-aircraft
gun:1 Mrs dicision to settle
for nothing better than. the
75mm was obstinately upheld by
the Warr Office until -June 1943
-eight Tong months because
"they had to go along with
Monty,"
At the end of 1940, the Gen-
eral Staff had asked the Director
General of Artillery for an anti-
tank gun "to penetrate five
inches of armor." That was the
extent of their specification. No
mention of the, range at'which
this penetration was required
to become effective; no mention
of 'the angle of .the armor plate
when thus holed. On receipt of
this message, the D.G. of A.,
General E. M. C. Clarke, order-
ed a 76m'm gun to be designed,
'specifying that it be capable of
penetrating five inches of arm-
or at 1,000 yards at an armor.
angle of, 30 degrees. This gun
was named the 17 -pounder and,
as mentioned above, first, ap-
peared on the Mareth Line in
March 1942. 'Although of the
same 'calibre as the American 76
mm gun', its 'performance, using
`Sabot' munition, was 51 per
cent am
t better gat 1000 yards and 71
per cent better at 2000 yards,
Vital Decisions
Though the 17 -pounder hart
been available for mounting in
Tanks as early as June 1941, no
general staff demand was mad:
for it, or by anyone else until
June 1943, some 21,1 years late.
Further the ministry of Supply
Tank Board made no move to
build a tank to take it, It was
not until November 1943 that the
British took two vital decisions.
The first, in which the General
Staff took" no initiative, was to
mount the 17.pounder in the
Chrysler M4A4 Tank in replac?-
ment of the U.S. 75mm gun.
This . came about as a result
of a combination of the domin-
ation of the D.G. of A. over the
General Staff in weapon matters,
and with the accession of a new
.Director 'General of Tank De-
velopment in the Ministry of
Supply. -Respectively by name:
General Campbell Clarke and
Claude Gibb, an engineer loan-
ed to the Ministry of Supply
from his firm of Parsons, 9f
turbine fame. In all, some 2000
American Tames were thus. up -
gunned. Thanks to the efforts
or Sir Charles Maclaren- of the
Royal Ordnance Factories,nthey
were ready to fight on D -Day in
Normandy and beyond.
By July 7, 1944, Montgomery
was reporting to the War Office:
"In the fighting ... we have
had no difficulty with German
armor. We have nothing- to
fear from . Panther and Tiger"
Tanks .... our 17 -pounder will
go right through them_
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same day, Eisenhower landed
the American. beaoh-head to
meet wholesale criticism of the
gun -power of the tanks in the
hands of American troops.
The British developed wbat:m
is known as 'Sabot' amuoi'ion
for both the 6 pounder and the
17 -pounder weapons, which gave
the latter gun an- 18 per cent
superiority. in terms of armor
penetration, aver the best Ger-
man 88mm gun (Pak 43 using
A.P. 40 ammo.'
lug 4for"a ,the British to have a.z
American Tank abetter gunned
than their alilies, • rltiia U.S.
never improved on their,, 76�rn'm
gun ,though they did finally in,
troduce an old anti-aircraft gun,
the 90m m; .fo'r tank use,' but its
performance fell face" orty the
every i4 their 'own,'
7Omm gun. In fact the X17-
pounder dwith "Sabot," had an
-Q4 to 91 per cent edge over the
U.S. 90mrm gun. .
The second decision 'with
vital impact, concerned the
alternatives:
This (1) To continue- trying to de-.
The Americans . were - offered
200 17 -pounder guns per month
from the ertd of 1943, but they
never tok up the offer. At
Eisenhower's insistence, Amer-
ican troops in Europe were
eventually supplied with so::.
Sherman Tanks, modified in
Britain to mount the 17-p3under.
In the afield it was too embarrass-
Ahmeek Approves Flag Purchase
Ahmeek chapter of the IODE
held its meeting at the home
of Mrs. M. McKee • on Monday,
The regent Mrs. Henderson
presided and the flag was pre-
sented by Mrs. C: Ruffel. Mrs.
H. Tichborne, secretary, read the
-report of the previous meeting.
The report of the finance com-
mitteesvas read by Mrs. Emer-
son. A variety sale consisting
of white elephant table, new and
used Clothing and home baking
will be held on Oct. 29 at the
McKay Hall. A light lunch of
cookies` and `.ea will also 8'e
served.
It was agreed to buy a Cana-
dian flag, also the usual wreath
for Remembrance Day.
Plans were made for a card
party in aid of hospital funds to
be held in ' the Legion Hall on
Nov. 29 at 8:15 p.m. Each mem-
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