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Old 12th June 2006, 19:27
marsyao marsyao is offline
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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 Boomerang
IMHO another possibility to consider in this discussion is that a fighter could strafe and destroy a half-track, or similar weakly armoured tracked AFV, but claim a tank destroyed. Unfortunately this is moving towards speculation that cannot be tested with hard information, so it can't really go much further.

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Boomerang
That sure happened, and every "smoking" tank was a "knock-out" tank, and every "knock-out" tank is a "destroyed" tank, and one tank attacked by several aircrafts, could be "destroyed' several times, this kind of things occured to every airforce in the war time.
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