Footnotes

1. Jentz states that two-thirds of the firings must penetrate the target armour plate, but Robert Livingston is not so sure. He says: “The passage in Jentz … (is) the only explicit reference to German penetration criteria I have found. This passage is awkwardly translated into English and may or may not refer to the actual penetration criteria … I suspect the German penetration criteria were not as strict as we might suppose. I don’t feel that the little passage in Jentz is sufficient evidence to make much of a statement of what the German criteria were, given the awkwardness of the translation.” [up]

2. Source: Jentz, Thomas L: Tank Combat in North Africa; Jentz, Thomas L. and Doyle, Hilary L.: Germany’s Tiger Tanks. Tiger I & II: Combat Tactics and Robert Livingston. Robert Livingston derived his information from a British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee report German Tank Armour dated 1946 which is in the Tank Museum Library in Bovington, England. It is apparently the only copy, but anyone can buy photocopies from them. The report is based on interviews with German manufacturers of armour and captured documents. Unlike the data for vehicle armour Jentz and Livingston are in complete agreement except for one minor typographical error. [up]