It wouldn't be the first time that something patently untrue got repeated until it became accepted as if it were fact.
- M1 Garand killed GIs because of the "ping"
- Japs removed Arisaka dust covers
- Tiger tanks were the best thing ever in ww2
- Tiger tanks were completely crap and 110% unreliable and had no impact whatsoever (the anti-wehraboo is as obnoxious as the wehraboo)*
- Hitler got the me-262 delayed
*This one is a new thing happening in the past 5 years with military youtubers, they decided it was great to dunk on the tiger myth and other stuff like the t-34, ak-47, IL-2, etc by completely going the 180 that boomer history channel documentaries talked, (no nuance except for actual historians like Military history visualized or the chieftain).