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Soviet SU-152 damage to Nazi Tanks (during World War II)
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Posted on 05/06/2019 5:27:48 AM PDT by vannrox


SU-152 was a legendary Soviet howitzer canon. It was called a “Heavy Tank Destroyer” because of severe damage it caused to German “Panther” and “Tiger” tanks. Let’s see why Nazi tank drivers were so afraid of it:

Those are examples of the German tanks being hit by SU-152.

There was very small chance for survival for the crews.

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Panther tank front armor – completely crashed by SU-152.

Hope you liked this story!


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: damage; nazi; tank; treadhead; war
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To: central_va

We was assaulted by dem tigers in the the bocage country. I mean assaulted!


41 posted on 05/06/2019 7:52:06 AM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: central_va

You are forgetting the M18 Hellcat tank destroyer, the most feared armored vehicle on the Western Front. Relatively small, fast and stealthy, when they weren’t ambushing and running with their accurate 76mm high velocity cannon, they were circle-strafing even the most advanced German machines to death.

And they truly were stupendously fast for tracked vehicles. Design top speed was about 60mph, but several are in the historical record as having been able to go considerably faster. At one point during the Battle of the Bulge, an M-18 and a Jeep suddenly had to relocate. Once on the roads, the Hellcat accelerated and left the Jeep behind ‘like it was standing still.’

The Germans feared the Hellcat because it could *always* flank them, the gun was accurate and unlike all other US tank destroyers, they couldn’t run from it. Anywhere a Panzer could go, a Hellcat could - and at a much higher rate of speed.

They *really* hated the Hellcat.


42 posted on 05/06/2019 7:56:55 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: central_va

Ditto the Brit tankers who bought it in tommy cookers.


43 posted on 05/06/2019 8:04:53 AM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: Spktyr

Glad someone else remembers the hellcat TD.


44 posted on 05/06/2019 8:06:47 AM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: Bull Snipe

You have to be careful which Shermans (and T34s) youa re talking about!

The Easy 8’s with the 76mm high velocity gun (British made I think) was much more effect against the Panther and to some extent the Tiger. Still needed multiple Shermans (Not as many!), and the high profile, thin armor was still an issue. How problem wasn’t solved until the Pershing.

The standard Sherman was disgraceful not only did it have the thin armor & high profile. Its low velocity 75mm gun was nothing more then a somewhat modernized WWI French 75. It was kept in production way too long due. People blame poorly thought Army anti-tank doctrine and even Patton for that decision. A lot of young men died because of that.

Slightly different topic: I read somewhere that the 90mm gun was available early in the war. Like the 88mm it originally was an antiaircraft gun. However unlike the 88mm US Army “doctrine keepers” successfully resisted early efforts to try it out as any antitank gun. Probably proper shells was also an issue. However eventually it was crossed over.

Again slightly different: Don’t know if the story is exactly true but its interesting. I do know early in the war we had no way of mounting a gun large then a 37mm in a turret hence the weird Grant tank configuration.


45 posted on 05/06/2019 8:08:52 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

Thanks


46 posted on 05/06/2019 8:25:15 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Reily

I heard the problem with the 90mm was handling the recoil in a vehicle. Large caliber AA guns were usually only used for home defense and the US didn’t need much of that.
Large caliber AT guns are usually deployed defensively and we weren’t doing that. We needed it to be on a vehicle. The Germans wisely deployed 88’s on trucks at the beginning of the war


47 posted on 05/06/2019 8:31:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: vannrox

To be fair, large war German armour alloys became increasingly brittle due to the lack of materials, especially Nickel, as the mines were overrun, and Imports were cut off.


48 posted on 05/06/2019 9:37:28 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: tcrlaf

That is supposed to be late, War, not large... iCorrect.


49 posted on 05/06/2019 9:44:44 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: FreedomPoster

Audie was a Hunt Co Tx boy, I am on a crusade to have him recognized in a place of honor at VFW post 4011 in Greenville Tx.

The is a museum in Greenville, I think the Farmersville VFW claims him but he lived in both towns.

Audie did not drive tracks, He busted them :)


50 posted on 05/06/2019 9:48:34 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: FreedomPoster

https://cottonmuseum.com/


51 posted on 05/06/2019 9:55:37 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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I have driven heavily modified Bradleys that would scoot 65 mph and turn on a dime till yer luck runs out and you throw a track.

I like the LAV, it will go 70 mph has independent suspention And it floats!


52 posted on 05/06/2019 10:03:14 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Anyone remember the floating Shermans?

Cool idea, except for the guys in it LOL


53 posted on 05/06/2019 10:07:49 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: vannrox; archy; kunsanhistorian; xzins; 2ndDivisionVet; SandRat; zot; HarleyLady27; ...

Considering, as stated the 152mm gun was a heavy artillery piece, I’ll state that there was NO tank produced by any country during WWII that would not have been destroyed by a direct hit from it.

And I recall during my days as an Army forward observer, that during one practice fire mission for my 155mm artillery battery (M109A1, C/2/27 FA) at the Grafenwoehr Training Center in Germany, one of the guns I was adjusting scored a direct hit on an M-47 and blew the turret into the air and it landed several meters away from the chassis....and that was a target tank with no ammo or fuel inside for secondary explosions.


54 posted on 05/06/2019 10:28:39 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Reily; Bull Snipe

The 76mm gun that replaced the initial 75mm on the Sherman tank was a modified 3 inch antiaircraft gun (possibly the one that was on US Navy ships) that was adapted for use as the towed 3 inch antitank gun and adapted to fit the Sherman’s turret. The 76 mm gun-armed Sherman, in the form of the M4A1(76)W was introduced during Operation Cobra. See these two Wikipedia articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_Sherman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/76_mm_gun_M1


55 posted on 05/06/2019 10:43:29 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: vannrox
Another Soviet tank killer, the Il-2 Sturmovik.


56 posted on 05/06/2019 11:06:07 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Spktyr

M-18

57 posted on 05/06/2019 11:08:43 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: mylife

He used hardware on a busted one effectively. He held off the Jagdpanther platoon with the .50 cal pintle-mounted on an M10 turret. And said M10 was on fire at the time.


58 posted on 05/06/2019 11:10:42 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: GreyFriar

I assume this was on the E8 Shermans?


59 posted on 05/06/2019 11:14:28 AM PDT by Reily
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To: vannrox
Thanks vannrox. During WWII, the USSR built at least 60,000 T-34 tanks -- considered to be the best, or in the top two or three tank designs of the war, by all parties involved -- but had perhaps 10,000 left by the end. Knocking out tanks was something the Germans were also good at. :^)

60 posted on 05/06/2019 11:52:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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