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Post by delaplume on Dec 15, 2019 3:35:13 GMT
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smallbrother
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Post by smallbrother on Dec 15, 2019 11:22:38 GMT
Just want a British 17pdr to have a crack at it!
Pete.
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smallbrother
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Post by smallbrother on Dec 15, 2019 11:23:55 GMT
How on earth did our people have the courage to face that thing in a Sherman with a standard gun?
Pete.
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Post by delaplume on Dec 15, 2019 19:34:18 GMT
How on earth did our people have the courage to face that thing in a Sherman with a standard gun? Pete. Hi Pete, The answer is you tried not to go face - to -face as their 88mm had a longer, very powerful reach but out-manoever and outflank it as a group.......... Initially it was a 3 to 1 ratio to kill a Tiger.........later things improved with introduction of the Sherman Firefly.......https://youtu.be/Ifxmd-uMU5Y A recent film that has a very believable Tiger Mk1 v Shermans conflict is this}------ youtu.be/5wG0ZDWxHtYWhen I was at ABRO Donnington we won the contract to re-grind that Bovington Museum's Tiger crankshaft...... Tigers were essentially an open country machine....Remember in Kelly's Heroes where they caught 2 of them in narrow roadways ?? Weak armour at the very rear..............I think the Panther was probably better all round.. |
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Post by ettingtonliam on Jan 12, 2020 13:03:31 GMT
Sorry, late in the day with this one. According to an old chap I worked with, who had driven Sherman tanks in the DDay invasion, you didn't take on a Tiger face to face, because they were just too well armoured. He said that you hid, waited till it had gone past, then popped out and banged a shot off into the engine access doors at the back, which were just light plate. Either that, or go for the weak spot of all tanks and try and blow a track off.
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