Anti-tank solution

**Reverend Joe** · 07-03-2008, 18:30

Originally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin

Those would be the hedgehogs he is referring to, not the poles that were often topped with mines and designed to tear, or blow open the bottoms of landing-craft.

Yeah, I was referring to the poles pictured above.

**Tribesman** · 07-03-2008, 23:48

Artillery being used for it's purpose is not a Polish invention.

Yes , Howitzers (and heavy mortars) against tanks goes right back to the first world war , so it could hardly be called untypical .

Now this is a slightly untypical anti-tank solution...
http://www.tankmuseum.org/libraryphotoarchive_0704.html
.......but as it was just chance it doesn't really count

**KrooK** · 07-04-2008, 09:56

I did not talk Poles invented it, only that Poles used it.
Anyway I have heard about similar situation into Italy.
Gun - about 220 milimetres - from Battleship hit next to Tiger Tank.
Explosion made big (30 metres) hole, however according to Allied soldiers tank itself
has not suffered serious damage. Good German job.
It was standing at the bottom of hole.
However whole crew cooked itself - there were too hot.

**Flavius Clemens** · 07-04-2008, 18:51

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Yes , Howitzers (and heavy mortars) against tanks goes right back to the first world war , so it couldNow this is a slightly untypical anti-tank solution...
http://www.tankmuseum.org/libraryphotoarchive_0704.html
.......but as it was just chance it doesn't really count

Crater from combat use of a V1 in a photo from a 1942 report? Is that a typo for the date or are they taking the mickey?

**The_Doctor** · 07-04-2008, 19:05

Nukes.

**Tribesman** · 07-04-2008, 19:41

Crater from combat use of a V1 in a photo from a 1942 report? Is that a typo for the date or are they taking the mickey?

It says the photos were found in a report , not that they were part of a 1942 report . The earliest possible date would be after march 1944

**Knight of the Rose** · 07-07-2008, 11:25

I'm almost a complete ignorant on WWII tanks, but why could it only be after march '44? The site does say "two photographs turned up recently in a War Office report dating from 1942".

Please enlighten me

/KotR

**Conradus** · 07-07-2008, 12:10

V-weapons only were used from 1944 onwards as far as I know

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 07-07-2008, 17:00

Originally Posted by Knight of the Rose

I'm almost a complete ignorant on WWII tanks, but why could it only be after march '44? The site does say "two photographs turned up recently in a War Office report dating from 1942".

Please enlighten me

/KotR

Allied troops weren't in France until '44...