Hi Don,
im not trying to argue with you, i just dont take things as they are told, if not plausible.
- Your next to last quote, makes me suppose a missunderstanding. Of course they are stamped of a sheet of metal: that is what a punch does.
- Concerning your very interesting question: how many were awarded?
Now taking the known figures, there where no more than 25 A7V-Tanks builded before the ending of the war! This figure includes the prototipes and the tests with wooden mock-up and those not delivered at the time of the armistice, training tanks....
To this we have to add 170 British captured Tanks (i am rounding up) from wich not all where functional. Only 120 were refurbished and came into action.
That leaves +/- 145 Tanks in action. Lets say 150 for ease of calculation. The crew of a A7V where 18 men, lets say 20. The Mark-Tanks dindt have even half of that but lets assume 20 men also.
150 Tanks with a crew of 20 Men gives 3000 men who did fight in a Tank during WW1 on German side.
..... Casualties, yes. Dont forget about them. We should suppose that at least halve of these men could have been wounded, injured got killed or just deseased, and we need to suppose the tank would bee still in service.
This leaves us with more or less 4500 men. Which looks realistic to me considering that the entire German Tank program were functional ONLY on the last 18 Month of the War and relyed mostly on Beutepanzer.
So i estimate that there should be no more than, rounding up again, 5000 badges awarded.
Therfore any badge i come across has to prove itself, or stay away.
Do you have other figures? or another thought?
im not trying to argue with you, i just dont take things as they are told, if not plausible.
- Your next to last quote, makes me suppose a missunderstanding. Of course they are stamped of a sheet of metal: that is what a punch does.
- Concerning your very interesting question: how many were awarded?
Now taking the known figures, there where no more than 25 A7V-Tanks builded before the ending of the war! This figure includes the prototipes and the tests with wooden mock-up and those not delivered at the time of the armistice, training tanks....
To this we have to add 170 British captured Tanks (i am rounding up) from wich not all where functional. Only 120 were refurbished and came into action.
That leaves +/- 145 Tanks in action. Lets say 150 for ease of calculation. The crew of a A7V where 18 men, lets say 20. The Mark-Tanks dindt have even half of that but lets assume 20 men also.
150 Tanks with a crew of 20 Men gives 3000 men who did fight in a Tank during WW1 on German side.
..... Casualties, yes. Dont forget about them. We should suppose that at least halve of these men could have been wounded, injured got killed or just deseased, and we need to suppose the tank would bee still in service.
This leaves us with more or less 4500 men. Which looks realistic to me considering that the entire German Tank program were functional ONLY on the last 18 Month of the War and relyed mostly on Beutepanzer.
So i estimate that there should be no more than, rounding up again, 5000 badges awarded.
Therfore any badge i come across has to prove itself, or stay away.
Do you have other figures? or another thought?
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