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Wuzak - the guys most contribiting to beating up airfields were the 8th AF. Period. The Mustang destroyed just short of 4500 German aircraft ( by credits). No other combat org came close.
That "knucklehead" might have spotted a machine gun crew firing at him, from the safety of the top "room," and decided to keep it quiet. It happened all the time.The knucklehead in the P-47 is attacking a water tower. .
Any high point like that near a airfield is going to have a observation post and a few light flak or machine guns posted on it, they'd have to be fools not to. You can see a gap between the roof and tower.The knucklehead in the P-47 is attacking a water tower. A FLAK tower is vastly different: it is a huge multistory building used as a bomb shelter, it has perhaps 4m of bomb proof concrete for a roof. The roof is likely to carry a FLAK battery and radar.
Flak wasn't only at airfields. And I wasn't talking about airfields.
Any high point like that near a airfield is going to have a observation post and a few light flak or machine guns posted on it, they'd have to be fools not to. You can see a gap between the roof and tower.
Of course i'm not saying the Germans with their "right brain thinking" couldn't be fools.
Actually, concerning the P-47 and the flak tower, if you look at the picture, the scale seems a bit off. Look at the bottom of the flak tower: There appears to be a sizable fence surrounding the tower. While a water tower might have a fence there, the tower as a whole seems a little too sturdy to be used exclusively for water storage.