Rick Posted March 8 Posted March 8 When tanks were first designed and used from about the middle of W.W.1 to early W.W.2, did different countries send observers to other countries to see and to learn what techniques, training, and technology was available, thought of, and/or dismissed?
Manic Moran Posted March 8 Posted March 8 Sure. And they also sent folks to each others schools, such as the US sending folks to the Kriegsakademie. The US's Experimental Mechanized Force was a direct result of a US political observing the UK's Experimental Mechanised Force. New York, 1939. COL Takatoshi Yakamura, BG Walter Short, Lt Gen Friedrich von Boetticher watching the US's maneuvers.
Rick Posted March 8 Author Posted March 8 Thank you Manic. Any comments available not just from the above, but other observations?
Ssnake Posted March 8 Posted March 8 The collaboration between Soviet Army and the Reichswehr to bypass Versailes Treaty restrictions is well known.
futon Posted March 9 Posted March 9 Hara no Tomio stayed in the UK and Germany from 1928 to 1930, studying tanks and automobles followed by about 2 months in the US. He visited Germany again as part of the Oshima group in 1935 for a few months and saw the military industry rebuilding.
Mike1158 Posted March 9 Posted March 9 The Basil Lydell-Hart book was used as a trieatise for various nations, apart from the home nation sadly. Tactics and methods used by Guiderian et al in their armoured operations.
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