Survey of Allied tank casualties in World War II
"An historical analysis of World War II records provides one method of assessing the effectiveness of tanks and of measuring their vulnerability. In this study a tank casualty was considered to be any tank unavailable for a firefight or for movement in a battle area. Immobilization, whether soon repairable or not, might result from an enemy weapons, friendly weapons, accident, mechanical failure, capture, self-destruction, bogging, or abandonment ... the present study analyzes every cause of tank casualties, based upon a sample of 12, 140 Allied tanks. This sample was derived from US, British, Canadian, and French records, from every theater of operation"--Summary
Print Book, English, 1951
Operations Research Office, Johns Hopkins University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., 1951