snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote: : : Upset at what they felt was unfair publicity (the Russians still claim : today that the Iraqis only lost 14 T-72s in combat and the rest were : blown up in place by their crews) : Interesting. So, the battle dubbed 75-Easting never took place, according to the Russians, or the US Army assaulted a lot of tanks that were already destroyed by their crews?
And, does anybody really believe their version, what ever it is?
Bruce
Bruce,
It gets worse. Wait till you hear about the grand battle where a company of Iraqi T-62s (!) from the armor regiment of the 16th Infantry Division knocked out 9 USMC M1A1s from 1st Tanks and damaged 5 others while escaping...
Considering it was only B Company 4th Tanks which had them, and 16th Infantry did not have any T-62s, think 1st Tanks would find that quite interesting...
Cookie Sewell
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