Allot of kills where made during early war when Germany was in offensive.
Which goes to my point. Few were KV1s or T-34s. At this time the Germans destroyed almost 20,000 obsolete or obsolescent tanks. Those also went into the kill counts.
Which was equal or bigger for Soviet or US kills
But no one was making assertions about Allied "Aces". It is why you go to primary sources to check not just what you claim but what the other guy shows in his own records. It is why all research on losses of this periods starts with a preface that each country used different nomenclature for destroyed, damaged, mobility kills, etc.
The German armor was inferior or equal at best to Soviet until the introduction of Panther.
So the P3 was inferior to the T-26? Making a blanked statement needs qualification. Yes, the Soviets had some tanks that were superior, and this informed German tank design from 1941 onwards. But most of the Soviet designs were inferior to what the Germans fielded, and more importantly, their training and doctrines were inferior. But those things didn't stay static.
If you want to comparison with planes I have to point out that since the allies had planes that matched or outperformed German planes they easily gained air superiority.
But not kill counts. The US rotated out fighter pilots with high kill counts to do a variety of things:
- They were sent to train what they knew to new pilots, to reduce the losses of new pilots
- They were also sent on tours to sell war bonds, since financing a war is important
- they were pulled off the front lines to avoid the possible morale hit of having "heroes" killed.
All has hardly anything to do with Sherman that was an inferior Tank.
You were the one who made a point of German tank "Aces". I was responding by showing that tank aces, while talented and experienced combatants, probably had their total inflated, had higher totals due to multiple other factors than their tanks, and were an example of poor doctrine (using experienced troops in the field instead of having them use their experience to improve the training of new troops).
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