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Old 12-18-07, 06:22 PM   #6
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even a destroyer - in real life - was obliterated by 50 caliber machine gun fire from a Tuskegee squadran P-47 when rounds penetrated the steel deck and ignited the ammo bunker within the ship causing it to explode violently.
I might be misremembering here, but the chances of a .50 caliber round causing a five-inch powder charge, which is in a brass cartridge, to explode is minimal. I think they actually penetrated the boilers, with much the same effect.
could have been, it was one or the other, i myself dont remember the exact cause of the detonation but i know the catalyst was a 50 cal round
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