Gemhorse
Senior Airman
If one doubts the Typhoon Tank-busting qualities, any leftover Germans from the Falaise Gap engagement will vouch for them....Typhoons started to really come into their own on the run-up to D-Day, and after.....
But the real glory should go to the Hurricane, which was the first Allied aircraft to use rockets, trialed in Feb. 1942, at Boscombe Down, using 3 rails per wing....
-First used operationally by Hurris II's n' IV's of 137 Sqn. on 2nd Sept. 1943, with a Typhoon escort they successfully took-out the lockgates on the Hansweert Canal in Holland.....- They continued in this role [4 per wing now] into 1944, when Typhoons continued...
Hurricanes played a huge part in Tank-busting, ETO, in N.Africa, Italy and especially in Burma etc. the 40mm Hurri's with rockets decimated Jap tanks....I dunno the figures, but it wouldn't surprise me if all added-up, the Hurricane was a top exponent at this....it was certainly the first......
But the real glory should go to the Hurricane, which was the first Allied aircraft to use rockets, trialed in Feb. 1942, at Boscombe Down, using 3 rails per wing....
-First used operationally by Hurris II's n' IV's of 137 Sqn. on 2nd Sept. 1943, with a Typhoon escort they successfully took-out the lockgates on the Hansweert Canal in Holland.....- They continued in this role [4 per wing now] into 1944, when Typhoons continued...
Hurricanes played a huge part in Tank-busting, ETO, in N.Africa, Italy and especially in Burma etc. the 40mm Hurri's with rockets decimated Jap tanks....I dunno the figures, but it wouldn't surprise me if all added-up, the Hurricane was a top exponent at this....it was certainly the first......