P-47/51 deflection shots into the belly of the German tanks,reality

(ArtKramr) wrote:


Your reading might have been different had you flown over a field in which
Panzers had been caught in the open by P-47's and you could see the planes
swarming around the tanks as they smoked, burned and exploded.


Arthur Kramer

Especially so if you had mistakenly thought that the Jug had no
bomb capability, right?

Oh!, sorry...I had forgotten that you'd have known about that,
having 'Been there and done that'.
--

-Gord.

In message , ArtKramr
writes
Your reading might have been different had you flown over a field in which
Panzers had been caught in the open by P-47's and you could see the planes
swarming around the tanks as they smoked, burned and exploded.

I've got a beautiful picture of the Argentinean cargo ship Rio Carcana,
taken after she was thoroughly shot up by Sea Harriers. She's a mass of
smoke and flame, ablaze from end to end, clearly doomed. Obviously a
highly successful attack, with no follow-up necessary.

In fact her crew survived unhurt, the ship was only lightly damaged (the
smoke was from fires lit by the crew, to dissuade follow-up attacks) and
the ship remained afloat for some time: she was mistakenly attacked at
least twice more (by her own side!) before she finally sank. The attack
_did_ persuade her crew to abandon ship, but it was the friendly fire
from their own air force that persuaded them not to go back aboard.

What the pilots saw, and honestly reported, and had pictures to prove,
didn't match what actually happened.

--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

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