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    Myth of Combat Aircraft destroying tanks

    Considering the Germans lost around 1 500 tanks, tank destroyers and assault guns in the Normandy campaign, less than 7% were lost directly to air attack. The greatest contributor to the great myth regarding the ability of WWII aircraft to kill tanks was, and still is, directly the result of...
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    Myth of Combat Aircraft destroying tanks

    You saw the source list. You can check them all. But the keypoint is this- about 90-95% of these "tankkillings" were nothing but either pure propaganda or just illusions. Not much differences between russians, germans or western allies. Why? During WWII, aircraft with unguided weapons...
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    Myth of Combat Aircraft destroying tanks

    They've said the first victim of the war is the truth. Modern literature on WWII is replete with accounts of devastating air strikes on tank units. There are many stories about dozens or even hundreds of enemy tanks being destroyed in a single day, thereby destroying or blunting an enemy...
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