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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: German Weapons in WW2
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Date: 27 May 89 03:17:27 GMT
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From: cs.yale.edu!spock!soup (Constantin von Wentzel)
The guns on the Tanks were lenghtened to ensure a better hit ratio..
(Which is quite obvious - a pistol will never be as accurate as a rifle)

Those planes might never have gotten proper use for several reasons:

	1) The entered late in the war therefore there were not many
	resources readied for them.

	2) The Me109 was the preferred fighter of the German Air Force 
	and already long in production.

	3) The shortage of fuel (due to the many bombings of Oil
	refineries) made flying very difficult. Many of the Jet planes
	were not used later in the war and had to be blown up due
	to this shortage and the oncoming Allied forces.

	
					Constantin von Wentzel.