> Do you know off the top of your head, how many Panthers > the Germans could have built, in place of one Tiger? Doesn't matter. At that stage of the war, Germany did not have the industrial capacity to build enough tanks (of any kind), the fuel to operate what they could build, nor the manpower to crew them against the flood of T34's coming at them from the east and the Sherman variants simiultaneously coming at them from the west. Lee -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist