From: Joe Garrett (j.garrett@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Apr 10 2005 - 20:57:34 PDT
Browning, Colt, Boeing, Oppenheimer,
Joe Garrett
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Subject: Re: [MV] Interesting tid bits about British military inventions
Roebling, Maxim, Garand.
Joe
--- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 8:54 PM +0200 4/10/05, Nigel Hay -MILWEB wrote:
> >Please dont overlook Gen Percy Hobart - who came up
> with some of the most
> >bizzarre military vehicle conversions ever.....
> known as Hobarts Funnies-
> >they had the last laugh and made a tangible
> differnce on D Day
>
> Not to mention that Hobart was the one that
> refined armor tactics from the plodding WWI form
> to the form that Guderian used for the German
> Blitzkrieg. Guderian religiously read the
> writings of Hobard in the Interwar years when
> Hobart was developing Armor tactics while the
> senior leadership of the British Army was trying
> to relegate him to non-essential status.
> Eventually, Hobart was turned out early in WWII
> and for a time served as a Corporal in the Home
> Guard!
>
>
>
> --
> --
> Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
>
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