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Offline SkyRock

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p-47's kill Tigers
« on: March 20, 2009, 12:40:30 PM »
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2009, 12:43:52 PM »
then why can we not take it out no AH?
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2009, 12:46:39 PM »
Quote from: oakranger on March 20, 2009, 12:43:52 PM
then why can we not take it out no AH?

Our Tigers do not have the fuel trailers to catch on fire.   
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2009, 12:48:33 PM »
Usually don't read youboob comments but some guy is typing:


Robert111 (1 week ago)
The truth:
A.) .50 Cal. can't penetrate Tiger underside hull-armor even if shot point-blank directly.
B.) If roadway were made of rolled steel plate sufficiently hard to deflect .50 cal, the bullet would be smashed up/partially shrapnel and have enough energy to penetrate maybe 1.0" wood, not 1.5" rolled steel plate! LOL!
C.) There was no such thing as tank "fuel trailers" ever towed by any Tiger tank ever. Such a thing never existed.
D.) Video narrator is a blowhard common idiot.


lol it's actually quite a hilarious arguement in comments. some people need to get out more.
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2009, 12:59:31 PM »
I believe the pilot was mistaking Panzer IV's (instead of Tigers) with the towed trailers.   
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2009, 01:16:20 PM »
Quote from: oakranger on March 20, 2009, 12:43:52 PM
then why can we not take it out no AH?


Too many perks for 50 cals to take it out.  My guess anyways.
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2009, 02:24:53 PM »
That didn't look anything like a confirmed kill.  There was some black smoke at the end, but that could have been anything.

When the Brits did a post battle analysis they found one tank that had been knocked out by 20mm cannon fire from aircraft, all other tanks destroyed by aircraft were destroyed by bombs or rocket fire.  None were destroyed by heavy or light machine gun fire.

It didn't happen. 
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2009, 02:38:02 PM »
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2009, 02:42:46 PM »
Ho-lee noodles- what do they hit at 2:10?  :eek:
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2009, 02:55:00 PM »
Quote from: hubsonfire on March 20, 2009, 02:42:46 PM
Ho-lee noodles- what do they hit at 2:10?  :eek:

Fuel or Ammo depot?
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2009, 04:15:25 PM »
Quote from: Karnak on March 20, 2009, 02:24:53 PM
That didn't look anything like a confirmed kill.  There was some black smoke at the end, but that could have been anything.

When the Brits did a post battle analysis they found one tank that had been knocked out by 20mm cannon fire from aircraft, all other tanks destroyed by aircraft were destroyed by bombs or rocket fire.  None were destroyed by heavy or light machine gun fire.

It didn't happen. 

I don't recall if it was the '98 WB or AW Con but there was a speaker that was a Mustang pilot during the war and was later shot down and spent his POW years in a concentration camp (he was Jewish).  Anyway, he was asked a question about this and his reply was that they did try and ricochet their bullets under the tanks, not to kill the tanks but rather to get at the troops that would sometimes take refuge under the tanks during air attacks.  Sometimes he said they would get lucky and hit the fuel trailer that was being towed but he never recalled one instance where they actually knocked out a tank with their .50s.


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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2009, 09:30:30 PM »
so the WW2 vet who actually did it in real life, is a liar..

gotcha.  Or maybe his memory is fuzzy... or whatever..  mabey it was a panzer... or whatever...

you cant kill ANY armor in this game with 50 cals, no matter what.

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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2009, 09:38:01 PM »
Quote from: RumbleB on March 20, 2009, 12:48:33 PM

D.) Video narrator is a blowhard common idiot.

I find it funny that an actual air combat vet is called a blowhard common idiot on a BBS filled with cartoon pilot blowhard common idiots.  :lol
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2009, 09:38:50 PM »
Quote from: Shifty on March 20, 2009, 09:38:01 PM
I find it funny that an actual air combat vet is called a blowhard common idiot on a BBS filled with cartoon pilot blowhard common idiots.  :lol

Was on the video page.
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2009, 02:42:01 AM »
Here we go again on this issue I had bought this up a long time ago & was assaulted no end.
I have spoken to this fellow. http://www.p47pilots.com/P47-Pilots.cfm?c=incP47BiographyHome.cfm&vm=BIO&pilotid=80&p=Joseph%20P.%20Celauro he to confirmed that they did do this & from what he recalled they were instructed to so on tanks. He said the most effective thing they used on tanks was napalm as it burnt all the oxygen up & collapsed the lungs of the crews & essentially cooked the crew inside the tank as they could net get out due to the flames. He told me you have to remember that with 3 squadrons from a fighter group all doing this at the same time on a column it was guaranteed to destroy all vehicles no matter what they were.

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