27 August 1961 :Two weeks after the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Charlie checkpoint is the scene of a showdown between Americans and Soviets. For several hours, Soviet and American tanks, some tens of meters apart, face each other at the crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin.
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You can see the war results in checkpoint board that German words written smaller than other languages
Think it ended with something like “Back up a little and we’ll back up a little and then you again and then us again, bit by bit”
As a war veteran of many thousands of tank battles in which I have personally commanded various types of armor from tank destroyers to MBTs, I can say that these tanks are not optimally positioned for frontal assault.
Hardly any angle of front armor and 0 protection of the lower plate.