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05-14-2005, 05:26 PM
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| Saving Private Ryan - Tank Busters
Those (probably all of you) who have seen Saving Private Ryan will recall that at the end, a German Tiger is bearing down on Tom Hanks character when suddenly, the tank is destroyed by a P-51. Matt Danon's character exclaims, "They're tank busters, P-51's" or something to that effect.
P-51's as tank busters?
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05-14-2005, 05:37 PM
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05-14-2005, 06:40 PM
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| Well P-51's could carry Rockets, so maby the grunts on the ground referred to these as "Tankbusters".
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| Don't forget the claim that P-47s could take out Tigers with their 50s by bouncing the bullets off the ground into the belly of the Tiger.  | |
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__________________ We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
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| I got the impression that it was a bomb that was dropped on the Tiger in the movie. Shouldn't the plane have been a Typhoon or Thunderbolt though?
What do you mean .50's can't bounce off the ground under a tank and put it out of commission? It happened all the time. 
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Originally Posted by KraziKanuK Don't forget the claim that P-47s could take out Tigers with their 50s by bouncing the bullets off the ground into the belly of the Tiger. | Uh-huh.  | |
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Country: | Lucky shot if they did, a 500 pounder waqs probably the way that tiger was taken out
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Country:  | I've never regarded the P-51D as a "Tank Buster"...
Escort Fighter????
Yup.........
Oh, and BTW, Matt Damon is a little girlish Queer-boy, who wears a garter belt every other Sunday....
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Country:  | Perhaps they were actually A-36's, the ground attack version of the P-51?
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Ben Afleck told me, through his agent of course......... He and Matt have had a "Falling Out..."
They even returned their Promise Rings........
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Country: | It's quite amazing [and  ing] that they tried to pass Matt Damon off as being in the 506th PIR of 101st Airborne. As if that wuss could do what those lads did.
.50s would hardly be able to destroy a Tiger, even with deflection shots to the under-side. That happened to lighter tanks such as the Pz.IV and below.
20 mm would probably do considerable damage to the underside of a Tiger and Panther though.
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Originally Posted by lesofprimus I've never regarded the P-51D as a "Tank Buster"...
Escort Fighter????
Yup......... | Me neither, but the grunts on the ground back then would call all planes coming in with rockets blazing "Tankbusters". (Especially if they actually busted some tanks  )
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