What German Mechanics Found When They Cut Open American Tires
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February 1943, Tunisia. A German workshop sergeant takes a hacksaw to the tire of a captured American truck, and nothing inside is what he expected.
No retread scar. No reclaimed rubber. No cotton cord. A year earlier, Japan had seized the plantations that supplied about 90% of America's rubber, and Berlin's whole strategy rested on one idea: cut an enemy off from rubber and his army eventually stops moving. Yet this tire was nearly new, on a truck that had crossed an ocean and a desert, and none of it had ever come off a tree.
So what was he holding? The answer runs through a prewar patent deal, a Senate hearing room, a raid over the Ruhr and a one-way road in Normandy. It ends by turning one of the Axis's greatest conquests into something close to worthless.
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One that that occurred to me after watching about a hundred 😀such videos is whether all of this justified pride is relevant to today's military situation. I watch Russia's failures in Ukraine and our own stumbling in various post WW2 encounters and ask myself why the difference.
Look further than right under his nose.And during this time, they had enough of that going on within the system
What German Mechanics Found When They Cut Open American Tires
WW2 Dossier
18,845 views
February 1943, Tunisia. A German workshop sergeant takes a hacksaw to the tire of a captured American truck, and nothing inside is what he expected.
No retread scar. No reclaimed rubber. No cotton cord. A year earlier, Japan had seized the plantations that supplied about 90% of America's rubber, and Berlin's whole strategy rested on one idea: cut an enemy off from rubber and his army eventually stops moving. Yet this tire was nearly new, on a truck that had crossed an ocean and a desert, and none of it had ever come off a tree.
So what was he holding? The answer runs through a prewar patent deal, a Senate hearing room, a raid over the Ruhr and a one-way road in Normandy. It ends by turning one of the Axis's greatest conquests into something close to worthless.
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