However, no other more powerful cannons of the Americans at that time were not. Not accidentally the unofficial motto of the battalions of tank destroyers was the phrase Seek-Strike-Destroy, which can be translated as “get - shot - kill”.ĭeveloping this war machine, the Americans realized that anti-tank capabilities of 37-mm guns are severely limited and that in the case of the Germans new tanks this gun will be powerless against them. His purpose, he put the creation of highly mobile and well-armoured self-propelled anti-tank artillery, some aggressive force, designed not so much to defend against enemy tanks, how to seek out and destroy them. All this activity was encouraged and directed the chief of army staff, Lieutenant-General Leslie Maniram, who believed that a preferable anti-tank guns to fight enemy tanks than the tanks themselves. In Ford Meade (Maryland) on December 1, 1941, he organized “Protivotankovy center” (Tank Destroyer Center), on the basis of which was formed battalions of fighters of tanks. To the mass formation of separate battalions of tank destroyers, which were subordinated to the General command of the U.S. The first experimental anti-tank divisions were formed in 1941 during military maneuvers in North Carolina.
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