P-47 strafing a Tiger tank video

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It's very dangerous to do low level attack on a ground forces in good hiding, specially at priority units they deployed big chunks of 20mm's AAA defending those areas.

1rst SS corps killed scores of attack aircraft's during their campaign at Caen area, confirmed by wreckage's.  Due to the difficult terrain the allied fighter bombing where not that effective, artillery however, was sending quite a fews tanks back to the rear for repair.

source "Steel Inferno"

[Owlblink]

I'm wondering if the majority of people miss interpreted what the pilot was saying in the video.

Listen carefully

He is talking about a gas trailer that most "tiger tanks" would carry around with them. The gas tanks were armored accept at the bottom. The pilots would shoot @ the trailers, getting them to set on fire and sometimes bouncing rounds up under the trailer gas tank, causing it to sometimes fall off of the armored vehicle and most likely explode.

 

[Chalenge]

Yeah, again most of the tanks that used those trailers were Panzer IVs. Also, again, to most Americans in WWII every tank they saw was a Tiger tank.

EDIT: As to the armored fuel tanks I don't think so. The images I have seen are just fuel barrels. There is no armor on them at all.

[StLouis]

Come to think about it.  How many Tiger tanks were there?  Sure as hell not a dime a dozen.  There are many types of German tanks and majority certainly did not have the armor thickness of a Tiger tank either (Panther and Tiger II obvious dose) .  Also, i high doubt that these FIGHTER pilots were trained to ID the types of tanks, or for that matter,  any German equipment they see.  They attacked anything they see fit contribute to the German War machine.

With all respect, they would have to be trained to ID it for it to be confirmed German so they could attack it.

[oakranger]

With all respect, they would have to be trained to ID it for it to be confirmed German so they could attack it.

Why, they go behind enemy line to take out anything (troops, vehicles, tanks, trains, and yes cattle/sheep/goats and horses) that is a target.

[DaveBB]

With all respect, they would have to be trained to ID it for it to be confirmed German so they could attack it.

P-47s unfortunately had quite a few friendly fire incidents on American and British troops.  And don't get me started on all the civilian farms that were strafed.  Chuck Yeager said it best (I'm paraphrasing) "We better win this war, or we'll hang for what we've done". 

[oakranger]

P-47s unfortunately had quite a few friendly fire incidents on American and British troops.  And don't get me started on all the civilian farms that were strafed.  Chuck Yeager said it best (I'm paraphrasing) "We better win this war, or we'll hang for what we've done".

Americans and British both mis-identified friend from foe from time to time. 

[Chalenge]

P-47s unfortunately had quite a few friendly fire incidents on American and British troops.  And don't get me started on all the civilian farms that were strafed.  Chuck Yeager said it best (I'm paraphrasing) "We better win this war, or we'll hang for what we've done".

Maybe Yeager was ashamed of a mistake he made?

[MiloMorai]

American even killed one of their own Generals and quite a few soldiers in a massive blue on blue.

[DaveBB]

Maybe Yeager was ashamed of a mistake he made?

American fighters were strafing everything that could provide any resources to the war effort for Germany.  This included civilians.  I believe it is Stephen Ambrose's "Citizen Soldier", it shows two beautiful blonde girls.  Both worked on a farm, and both had just been strafed by an American aircraft.  One was dead.  That image was pretty haunting.

[Mister Fork]

Are you referring to this image? http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1154425  NSFW due to disturbing imagery.

[Chalenge]

Hmm, not American at all if so. I have looked in vain for a similar situation with German girls strafed by Americans.

[DaveBB]

Are you referring to this image? http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1154425  NSFW due to disturbing imagery.

No.  It was definitely France.  It was from a book by the famous historian Stephen Ambrose. 

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You better be the winner of a war - you will never be charged of things both you and the losing party did, like killing scores of prisoners or stafing civilians.

[BuckShot]

Besides the Russians, did any of the other allies kill scores of prisoners?