http://davetrott.co.uk/2014/05/you-talking-to-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-talking-to-me Powered by The Barn Thu, 15 May 2014 19:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://davetrott.co.uk/2014/05/you-talking-to-me/#comment-1512 Thu, 15 May 2014 19:29:55 +0000 http://davetrott.co.uk/?p=885#comment-1512 Geordie,
The German gun was the 88mm anti-aircraft gun.
At Dunkirk the British tanks were attacking and the Germans didn’t have anything powerful enough to penetrate their armour.
Heinz Guderian told them to lower the elevation on their anti-aircraft guns (the 88mm).
It blew the British tanks apart and became the best anti-tank gun of the war.
as you say, using one thing for another.
The Russians did a similar thing.
Having no powerful anti-tank guns they used their howitzers on the German tanks.
Again, they blew them apart.
As you say, we should always keep an open mind to possibilities.

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