Guys, I need help with something. I've got a ~300 freakin' volume library on WW2, which does me absolutely no good if I can't find what I'm looking for.
I remember reading at some point that Hitler had specifically instructed the Army Ordnance Office to install a longer-barrel 75mm on the Pzkw-IV than the L/24 they initially went with. When he attended a demonstration of the Pz-IV-- I think it was on his birthday in '41-- he saw it still had the 75mm-L/24 & he was furious.
I know about the conference in May 1941 when he told 'em to install a 50mm-L/60. This would have been before that-- probably shortly after France & still in time to build a few before Barbarossa.
Speer refers to this order in Ch. 17 of his book, but he's short on specifics. I'm trying to figure out precisely what calibre Hitler ordered & when he ordered it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thegn.
I remember reading at some point that Hitler had specifically instructed the Army Ordnance Office to install a longer-barrel 75mm on the Pzkw-IV than the L/24 they initially went with. When he attended a demonstration of the Pz-IV-- I think it was on his birthday in '41-- he saw it still had the 75mm-L/24 & he was furious.
I know about the conference in May 1941 when he told 'em to install a 50mm-L/60. This would have been before that-- probably shortly after France & still in time to build a few before Barbarossa.
Speer refers to this order in Ch. 17 of his book, but he's short on specifics. I'm trying to figure out precisely what calibre Hitler ordered & when he ordered it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thegn.