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This WW2 forum is intended for asking and discussing reference or historical related issues pertaining to WW2 (1939-1945) subjects.
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 Subject:  Re: How effective WAS shurzen?List thread.  
  
 Date:  Mar 4, 2006
 From:  Adam Weber 
To take this thread a bit further, if it was NOT effective the
U.S. Army would not have made a habit of using chain-link fenc-
ing to protect against B40 and RPG warheads twenty-odd years later
in Vietnam, would they? God knows how many books I've read describing
that, and talking to some of my Platoon and 1SGT's when I was in the
service in the eightie's. Using a barrier to prematurely detonate
shaped-charged warheads had to be an effective measure, or the idea
would have went the way of Zimmerit.

Also, I just remembered from when I read "Death Traps" by Bolton
Cooper, he related how the layer of sandbags the Sherman crews used
WAS an effective measure against Panzerfausts, and I just NOW remem-
ber the Russians used the "bedspring" barriers on their tanks in the
final battles of WW2.

The experts may have thought those guys were peeing into the wind,
but the crews thoughts they were pretty effective.

My two cent's worth,
Adam Weber
 
Thread Listing 
  How effective WAS shurzen? - Ken Miller - Mar 3, 2006
. . . Re: How effective WAS shurzen? - Kurt Laughlin - Mar 3, 2006
. . . Re: How effective WAS shurzen? - frank forster - Mar 4, 2006
. . . . . . Re: How effective WAS shurzen? - Jari Lievonen - Mar 4, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: How effective WAS shurzen? - frank forster - Mar 4, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: How effective WAS shurzen? - Eric Scurlock - Mar 4, 2006
. . . Re: It wasn't... - Carl Dembrowski - Mar 4, 2006
. . . Re: How effective WAS shurzen? - Adam Weber - Mar 4, 2006
. . . . . . Viet Nam experience different - Kurt Laughlin - Mar 5, 2006
. . . Re: How effective WAS shurzen? - Juan Contreras - Mar 4, 2006
. . . Re: How effective WAS shurzen? - David Manning - Mar 4, 2006
. . . Re: How effective WAS shurzen? - Alan Eaton - Mar 4, 2006
. . . Why go with "Thoma Schild" or mesh screens? - Steve Campbell - Mar 5, 2006
. . . Close and personal - Janusz Smolinski - Mar 5, 2006
. . . . . . Re: Close and personal - Kurt Laughlin - Mar 7, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: Close and personal - Janusz Smolinski - Mar 8, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Close and personal - Paul Roberts - Mar 8, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . round & rifles - Janusz Smolinski - Mar 8, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: round & rifles - Paul Roberts - Mar 8, 2006
. . . HEAT or AT Rifle? - Frank Forster - Mar 5, 2006
. . . . . . AT Rifle! - Paul Roberts - Mar 6, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: AT Rifle! - frank forster - Mar 7, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . Remember the question - Kurt Laughlin - Mar 7, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Remember the question - Bill Goodrich - Mar 8, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Remember the question - frank forster - Mar 10, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . for Paul and Kurt - Janusz Smolinski - Mar 8, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: for Paul and Kurt - Paul Roberts - Mar 8, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . more about - Janusz Smolinski - Mar 9, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: more about - Paul Roberts - Mar 10, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Penetration vs. Stand Off - Kurt Laughlin - Mar 10, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: more about - Janusz Smolinski - Mar 13, 2006
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