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Originally Posted by Six Nifty .50s
Other Luftwaffe flyers testified that Hans-Ulrich Rudel filed bogus claims for tanks destroyed when other Stuka pilots flew over the same battlefield and reported no vehicles were burning. I don't take stock in what Rudel imagined about himself or the world around him. His Nazi handlers were not keen on applying science to investigate, substantiate, or question the claims of national heroes.
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Rather pleasent post, i didn't knew about that.
If we have a statistical approach, from published soviet numbers, only 2,4% of soviet tank losses were due to the Luftwaffe. The lion's part is going to Anti Tank canons (mainly 75-88 mm) at about 75-80% losses. German tanks are for 6 to 10%, but there are mines, panzerfausts, infantery...
So even if all of the 93 500 lost soviet AFV's are tanks were all due to combat reasons (and this is untrue), it means that Rudel alone destroyed about 1/4 of them, due to the Luftwaffe.
If he was not a liar, what the hell were doing others Luftwaffe pilots?
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