In 1995, I was
asked to do the historical and database support for a computer game “Road to
Moscow.” Being a gamer, and an east front aficionado while having built a game with by that
name for the Commodore 64 in 1985, I was easily enticed. After all,
we now had unlimited space. 64 megabytes of RAM, and 800 megabyte
drives, all clocking at 90 megahertz! It was a dream come true.
While Road to Moscow 2.o was never to be, the
research lives on. I took the opportunity to justify building up my library on
all things World War II, and became an expert on East Front Esoteria* beyond
sanity.
I started writing “The Detailed Guide to the East
Front”, and have worked on it periodically, but, in truth, compared with David
Glantz’s “When Titans Clashed” my writings are a meandering voice in the
wilderness.
One chapter of the “Guide” was on the
armored fighting vehicles of the war. The following articles have melded it with
vehicle pictures, most of which we took, while visiting the US Army Ordnance Museum, in Aberdeen
Maryland. We highly recommend a visit. It is only 5 minutes from the Aberdeen
exit of I-95. Allow at least 2 hours.
