For you Stuka lovers....

Pretty neat indeed! Good stuff on the "tactics" of busting a Stalin tank.
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Very interesting, the part that really got me, was this;

"I had maybe 30 tanks to my credit when I went into the hospital. So I got most of them from December '44 on. The last part of the war in the north the Russians had tanks everywhere. Our unit destroyed 20 to 30 tanks every day, just using the Stuka. It was a tank cemetery up there. But it would seem that the next day they would have 50 new ones. We stopped counting the number of tanks we destroyed. One time I destroyed three tanks in one pass. It was really an accident. The three tanks were lined up in a village and I lined up with the rear one. My captain came in from the side. I opened fire on the last and destroyed it but my guns would not stop firing, so I lined up on the next one, destroyed it, and then lined up on the front one and destroyed it also. My captain was pleased but upset because every time he would line up on a tank I would destroy it."

 

A 9 year olf thread, and it's a gem. Nice work reviving this one Martin.