Heaven. 1944.
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Re: Heaven. 1944.
Thought it would be somewhere around Falaise. Not so heavenly for the Germans, then .....
Mark IV (Liesel, Abteilung 14, France 1918)
M3 Lee (25 Dragoons, Burma 1944)
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Re: Heaven. 1944.
Probably pz4 the gun barrel looks to be larger than any pz3 variant. I don’t know how many pz3s were even around after the war.
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Re: Heaven. 1944.
Pz4 is my second favourite after the Tiger 1. I guess it's from my childhood days when I used to do Airfix models and used to play with them until they broke. Then I would try to convince my father to buy me a new one. He was more into airplanes and ships.
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Re: Heaven. 1944.
Sorry Brian, that's just a load of old Wehrmacht junk, shot to pieces by 17 pdrs and air to ground rockets. This is really heaven......
Sorry, couldn't resist it. Mind you, if you had the contents of your photo available today, you would be a very rich man indeed.
Sorry, couldn't resist it. Mind you, if you had the contents of your photo available today, you would be a very rich man indeed.
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Re: Heaven. 1944.
I'm surprised at you Steven, air to ground rockets were wildly inaccurate the British in 1944 conducted trials with a captured Panther painted white and placed in the middle of an open field, another words a perfect target the RAF then tried to hit the Panther firing a broadside of rockets from all four directions, the results were not good and favoured the Panther if memory serves me right there was less than a 5% chance of being hit by angle rocket from a full salvo of eight rockets on the other hand if a rocket did hit then the results were devastating, being hit by a bomb had even worse results estimations was it took 800 rockets or 3500 bombs to hit a tank in ca combat situation.
I came across a post some years ago by Michael Kenny, try as I have I cant find the post.
I came across a post some years ago by Michael Kenny, try as I have I cant find the post.
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Re: Heaven. 1944.
20mm cannons on a Plane were ineffective against armour .50cal even less effective even though US pilots claimed that bouncing rounds off the floor into the belly of a Panzer would knock it out this was not the case not a single German tank was lost to this method even though hundreds of kills were claimed.
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Re: Heaven. 1944.
Who says you actually have to destroy a tank ? You just need to cause enough peripheral damage (break a track, damage a periscope) to make the crew bail out. Concussion from a near miss could do that, or sheer terror (being under rocket attack would do it for me !).
And there's a world of difference between trying to hit a single vehicle in a field (whatever colour it's painted), and a choked area like Faliase which must have been the ultimate "target rich environment".
And there's a world of difference between trying to hit a single vehicle in a field (whatever colour it's painted), and a choked area like Faliase which must have been the ultimate "target rich environment".
Mark IV (Liesel, Abteilung 14, France 1918)
M3 Lee (25 Dragoons, Burma 1944)
Universal Carrier (2/Wiltshires, Italy 1944)
Panther (Deserter, 145 RAC, Italy 1944)
Centurion Mk 3 (8KRIH, Korea 1950/51)
Morris Quad, 25-pdr & limber (45RA, Korea 1951)
M3 Lee (25 Dragoons, Burma 1944)
Universal Carrier (2/Wiltshires, Italy 1944)
Panther (Deserter, 145 RAC, Italy 1944)
Centurion Mk 3 (8KRIH, Korea 1950/51)
Morris Quad, 25-pdr & limber (45RA, Korea 1951)