Subject: P-47/51 deflection shots into the belly of the German tanks,
From: (Tony Williams)
Date: 8/6/03 10:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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pilots made such attacks, and that
they believed that they worked. They weren't necessarily correct in
that belief, however; as has been pointed out, the claims from RAF and
USAAF fighter-bomber units were about ten times greater than the
actual number of tanks destroyed

Well if they destroyed 10% of what they claimed then we know for a fact that
the P-47's destroyed one hell of a lot of tanks. The problem is with the
accuracy of the reporting, not the ability of the P-47's to destroy tanks. If
that were the case no tanks would have been destroyed. But 10% of what was
reported is still on hell of a lot of tanks. So we must conclude that the
P-47's did a damn good job. And a few thousand German tankers would agree with
that assessment.

Arthur Kramer
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