Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:29 PM 1/15/2007, Stephen Syrotiak wrote: > > >Gad, that's hard to believe. Driver or bow gunner mayhap? > >An AP, and the rest of the stuff from the burn-thru, bouncing around >in that turret is not the most hospitable storm to find one caught in. Two were gunners and one was the Tank Commander. All three said the round just pierced the turret on one side and went out the other. By 1945, the Germans were pretty much down to penetrator rounds and were quite short on AP exploding rounds. After the liberation of France cut Germany off from its major source for Tungsten, Spain, Speer released the remaining uranium from the dead German A-Bomb project for the production of penetrator AP rounds, the direct ancestors of the depleted uranium rounds now in use on A-10 Warthogs by the USAF. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!