Rob Stuart wrote: This is mostly true, but some armies could perhaps have done better if they had got their doctrine right. I am thinking here of any army which thought it was okay to have a one- or two-man turret, so that the commander of the tank had to help operate the gun rather than focusing on commanding the tank.
Hmmmm!Rob Stuart wrote: The Matilda II (aka the A12) and the KV-1 also had three-man turrets with a dedicated commander.
The original T-34 had a two-man turret, with the commander also acting as gunner, but the Russians recognized that this was an error and the T-34-85 had a three-man turret with a dedicated commander.
Meeko987 could just as easily have asked about 1940 or 1942, so ...
The British cruiser and infantry tanks of 1941 all had 3-man turrets. They started 1942 the same but as the year dragged on, the Crusader cruiser tanks and the Valentine infantry tanks switched to 2-man turreted. Why?
If you know the correct answer, you also know that this switch could (should) have been implemented in 1941.
So what is it you were saying about doctrine and getting it right?