hiding Boys AT rifles in bushes, outhouses, and horses.
Hiding rifles or ANYTHING in horses is just wrong.
How would YOU like it?
The .55 caliber boys took a big man to fire it and was more often used against buildings and such(would have been a great pill box buster)that it was tanks. Most tanks in Europe during WWII couldn’t be killed by that small of a weapon.
The Boys AT Rifle, also known as the “This is gonna get me KILLED” gun.
The ONLY ones that used it effectively were the Finns vs. Soviet T-26’s with paper-thin armour, and that was only because the Ski troops could get behind them, and fire into the engine space from around a 100 ft. away.
They were reasonably ok vs. the PZ1A’s in France, which, along with wildly exaggerated kill claims, encouraged the Brits to distributed them widely in Africa, as an Anti-Armour stop-gap, where they were completely useless even against the German armoured cars by that stage. They were best used to disable trucks, or Italian Very Light Tanks by shooting the engine blocks, and even then it was dicey.
Great post.
Question: What kinds of armored vehicles would such a weapon be useful against today. (Obviously, Main Battle Tanks would be impervious, but what about MRAPs and the like?)
For later
The Boys was generally known for making tanks mad.
They do a pretty good job of knocking down palm trees!