it does matter, how many tanks were destroyed on that day? hundreds? thousands? a few? sending over 1k lancs to bomb gv's doesnt mean they went in individually and hunted down individual tanks one by one, like you try to compare to the game. most likely on that day they were assigned an area and they dropped bombs on that area tanks or no tanks.
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Enough tanks that two panzer regiments were knocked out of the battle until they were able to get enough men, tanks and other vehicles to get back into fighting shape.
sending over 1k lancs to bomb gv's doesnt mean they went in individually and hunted down individual tanks one by one, like you try to compare to the game. most likely on that day they were assigned an area and they dropped bombs on that area tanks or no tanks.
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The Lancasters and Halifax bombers were sent over Normandy that early morning to specifically bomb the tanks, vehicles, artillery and men of the 21st Panzer Division, along with the steelworks at Colombelles and the town of Cagny. This was to soften German positions so the British could break out of the Normandy beaches and capture Caen. The tanks in the images I posted were a result of being on the receiving end of the bombs specifically dropped to blow them up, it wasn't a case of the 21st PD being bombed because they just happened to have the bad luck to be in a spot the bombers were carpet bombing.
You didn't like the answer to infowar's question about real life stats of Lancasters bombing tanks during the war, so you're trying twist things around to prove your point. The problem is it doesn't matter if in real life if Lancasters hunted individual tanks and bombed them all that matters is that contrary to the prevalent belief that Lancasters were never used in this fashion, there were indeed used to carpet bomb tanks.
Lancasters and Halifax bombers weren't the only ones to have fun, USAAF B-17s, B-24s, B-26s, B-25s, A-26s, A-20s all took part in similiar missions to support the US break out from the Normandy beaches, this time under Operation Cobra. The USAAF and RAF also flew similiar missions during the attempt to destroy the German army in the Falaise pocket, carpet bombing German positions around the clock.
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