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To: ransomnote

Looks like maybe 75mm from a Sherman, but that’s an unsupported guess.

And, yeah, I bet it was LOUD inside. At least until the flamethrower guy got there.


3 posted on 05/16/2019 11:01:53 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: PLMerite

Some of the smaller ones could be 40mm or Ma Deuce hits, too. But yeah, with the guy next to the structure, it sure looks that thing got hit by quite a few 75 or 76MM Sherman cannon shots.


7 posted on 05/16/2019 11:07:07 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: PLMerite

I also agree its not shells from a destroyer

Look at the clustering. Also, look how the “spray” or movement generally flows outward from a generally central point.

I would guess someone rolled up an M5 anti-tank gun on the thing at close range and started blasting away


24 posted on 05/16/2019 11:25:34 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PLMerite

Or the same caliber on a Churchill or Cromwell tank. That the hits on the turret are on the landward side excludes naval gunfire.


43 posted on 05/16/2019 11:54:25 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: PLMerite

Odds of any spalling?


55 posted on 05/16/2019 12:33:02 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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