Polish cavalry

[martin goddard]

Here it is . The proof that Polish cavalry beat German tanks. Mythical of course. I can see one tank commander surrendering.


martin

[Camulogene]

And an other scoop:

the German tanks turrets were made by Peter Pig!     

The proof:



Pierre

[Sean Clark]

Those Polish cavalry aren't accurate anyway. They should have big feathery wings on their backs. Goes to show you can't always trust these pictures.

And Pierre, I can see see why those forts didn't work. They're great in 15mm scale, but no good against real tanks 

[martin goddard]

I think our investigations are going to change the history books (possibly not).


martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

Those Polish cavalry aren't accurate anyway. They should have big feathery wings on their backs. Goes to show you can't always trust these pictures.

And Pierre, I can see see why those forts didn't work. They're great in 15mm scale, but no good against real tanks 

Yeah, but if you stuck one of those cupolas on top of a Tiger chassis, I think you might have a winning combination?

Simon

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

Polish cavalry did repeatedly engage with armoured units of the Wehrmacht with varying degrees of success. Much of the disparaging press about Quixotic tilting at tanks was a result of German spin which covered up the vulnerability of the army to a supposedly inferior opponent. With 80% of the German army in 1939 still dependant on horses, and even bicycles, the tail of a column could be extremely long and vulnerable to attack and ambush. It was not all the hardened, mechanised targets we associate with films and propaganda footage. Invariably the Poles concentrated on the infantry and other 'soft' targets.
The standard issue for Polish cavalry in all the training manuals from 1937 was a shoulder slung anti-tank gun, anti-aircraft gun or anti-tank rifle fully capable of discomforting or even knocking out or disabling early versions of the Panzers and armoured cars... they simply used their horses mobility as a rapid reaction force to strike at the invading forces in flying columns...

[Leman (Andy)]

When the legend reads better than the truth print the legend.