Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/15

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Subject: [Leica] There's something about German design ...
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Mon Jan 15 12:43:44 2007
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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!



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