Thanks! Another great reference. I suppose a better term for ‘destroyed’ would be ‘knocked out of action’, to cover the non-catastrophic results.

One more question for you Tony Williams- I believe I was reading through an old book on the P-47 (or was it the P-51?) that mentioned that pilots in ground attack missions shooting their .50s at the ground near a tank could cause the tank to flip over. Is there any veracity to those claims, or just an old wartime rumor?

Originally posted by google
Now, just what exactly precipitated the destruction of a tank in a Ju-87G attack? Was it the tank brewing up from penetrations of its ammo stowage, or just the shells penetrating and killing the crew? Just curious, but does anyone know about how many 37mm shells were needed to take out a T-34?

OK, I was just re-reading an old interview in Military History (August 2001) with Neumann, famed Ju-87G pilot, and it would seem that many of the tanks he fired on went up in catastrophic explosions. Sounds like the ammo and everything else cooking off.

Nevermind, found some info in the MMA section.

Originally posted by Vortex
you should be able to find them in old books about WWII, one place to look for is your local public libraries, the “collector of old and cheap books” 😀 😀 😀 great b/w photos though. I’ve seen at least one where a round hit a ship (near Alaska IIRC)…

What size and class ship? IIRC, the B-25s never really went after warships, mainly transports and the like.