The $6.50 Metal That Beat Panther Armor – GE's Cartel Charged $453
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In the summer of 1944, American tank crews in France found that neither of their guns would go through the front of a Panther. The metal that could had been inside the United States for sixteen years.
Tungsten carbide cost about $6.50 a pound to make. After a 1928 agreement between General Electric and Germany's Krupp, GE's Carboloy sold it for as much as $453 a pound and refused licenses to American firms such as Crucible Steel and Chrysler. We follow that contract from a boardroom in Schenectady to the tank fights of 1944 and 1945: Lafayette Pool's Sherman, the battle at Arracourt, and the Pershing in Cologne that firex a round with a tungsten carbide core.
And then the 1947 trial that was supposed to settle the account.
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The $6.50 Metal That Beat Panther Armor – GE's Cartel Charged $453
Steel Cutaway
8 views
In the summer of 1944, American tank crews in France found that neither of their guns would go through the front of a Panther. The metal that could had been inside the United States for sixteen years.
Tungsten carbide cost about $6.50 a pound to make. After a 1928 agreement between General Electric and Germany's Krupp, GE's Carboloy sold it for as much as $453 a pound and refused licenses to American firms such as Crucible Steel and Chrysler. We follow that contract from a boardroom in Schenectady to the tank fights of 1944 and 1945: Lafayette Pool's Sherman, the battle at Arracourt, and the Pershing in Cologne that firex a round with a tungsten carbide core.
And then the 1947 trial that was supposed to settle the account.
Steel Cutaway: see-through WW2 engineering. Subscribe to see what the steel was hiding.
#ww2 #TankHistory #SteelCutaway