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Old 3rd June 2006, 18:20
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Re: Destroyed tanks counted as "air victories" in April, 1945 by German fighters in east

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Originally Posted by Csaba Becze
Gentlemen,

was it a totally common practice at the Jagdwaffe in the last weeks of the war to confirm the strafed, burning tanks as air victories? I did not check all of my available materials, but remember only JG 52 claims (for example two by the excellent Lt. Düttmann, one T-34/85 and a Sherman as well)
The German word for the destruction of an aircraft or a tank is «Abschuß» (a tank can score an Abschuß on another tank, too) but whether they were considered equivalent achievements, I don't know.
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