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Old 12-30-08, 02:04 AM   #9
UnderseaLcpl
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Another quick "stranger than fiction tale" fromthe book "Death Traps" (can't remember author's name, but he worked as a tank recovery specialist in the European campaign in ww2)

Evidently, a Sherman tank with a 76mm gun was hit and utterly destroyed by a Panzerkampfwagen V Panther. The complete lack of a frontal impact point, substantiated by witness accounts that the tank was not hit from behind, as well as the apparent impact point of the shell (rear turret, interior) suggested that the Panther's 75mm shell had more or less gone straight up the barrel of the Sherman's 76mm gun as the breech was opened to reload.
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