“German tanks? Punk. Too slow, mechanism too exposed, too many slits.
Oh, very well made, but poor design. Nor do I think very much of German
tank men.
“We had about 44 per cent. casualties, and that covers 22 actions. Ten
per cent. of the casualties were deaths. But I don’t recall many men
dying without doing something first.
“I recall that there was one tank got stuck in a trench and nothing
handy to rescue it. Captured, of course. Well, we captured it back two
days later. Every round of ammunition was fired. Every pistol cartridge
had been fired. And both men had been wounded long before they were
killed; there was plain evidence of it in blood where no blood would be
if they had just been snuffed out right at first. They must have put up
a beautiful scrap. Americans don’t like to surrender, somehow.”