ArtKramr wrote:

Subject: P-47/51 deflection shots into the belly of the German tanks,
reality or fiction?
From: John Halliwell
Date: 8/8/03 4:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id:

In article , Emmanuel Gustin
writes
The battlefield examination team found 33 armoured vehicles
that had been the victim of air attack. The original RAF and
USAF claim was for 391 -- about three times as much as the
total number of wrecked tanks and other vehicles on the
battlefield, and probably also about three times the number
the German had, as they lost almost everything.

I'm unfamiliar with the battle, but if air attack only got 33, what got
the rest (assuming about 130 vehicles were destroyed from the above
numbers)?

--
John

Now there is a truly interesting question. (grin)

Arthur Kramer



The first page I found on the battle has a photo of U.S. infantrymen,
backed by a column of M10 tank destroyers.

Do you suppose they might have got some?

Dave