How One Gunner's "Forbidden" Elevation Trick Turned His Gun Into a Panzer Killer скачать в хорошем качестве

How One Gunner's "Forbidden" Elevation Trick Turned His Gun Into a Panzer Killer

Why one anti-tank gunner elevated his M5 gun to double the approved angle during WW2 — and destroyed three Panthers in ninety seconds without taking return fire. This World War 2 story reveals how a forbidden firing technique changed American anti-tank tactics across France. September 19, 1944. Corporal Thomas Bennett, an anti-tank gunner with Second Battalion near Saint-Lô, France, watched five German Panther tanks advance through a depression eight hundred yards away. The M5 three-inch gun had a maximum approved elevation of fifteen degrees. Bennett elevated his gun to thirty-two degrees. His lieutenant said this would destroy the recoil mechanism. Engineering manuals called it dangerous and unauthorized. They were all wrong. What Bennett discovered that September afternoon wasn't about following regulations. It was about physics and geometry in a way that contradicted everything the Army approved. His high-angle shells dropped onto the Panthers' thin top armor instead of bouncing off their thick frontal plates. By the end of September — when three other gun crews had copied his technique — American kill ratios against Panthers reversed from two-to-one losses to nearly even. And crews survived. This technique spread unofficially through anti-tank battalions gunner to gunner, saving an estimated forty to sixty crew lives and accounting for sixty to eighty Panther losses before the Army quietly acknowledged it in a December bulletin. The principles discovered at Saint-Lô continue to influence modern anti-tank weapons like the Javelin missile's top-attack profile today. 🔔 Subscribe for more untold WW2 stories:    / @wwii-records   👍 Like this video if you learned something new 💬 Comment below: What other WW2 tactics should we cover? #worldwar2 #ww2history #ww2 #wwii #ww2records