Subject: P-47/51 deflection shots into the belly of the German tanks,
reality or fiction?
From: "Emmanuel Gustin"
Date: 8/5/03 3:16 PM Pacific

Apparently more tanks were abandoned undamaged than were
actually destroyed by the fighter-bombers. So the main effect
appears to have been a moral one. The strafing and bombing
scared the tank crews so much that they drove the tanks into
cover and often jumped out and hid in the nearest ditch. And
perhaps did not survive the attack.


I'd call that a pretty effective attack. Wouldn't you? (grin)

Arthur Kramer
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