Color footage of p-47 strafing German Tigers

[McIvan]

That's extremely interesting....the description during the video of the tactics. All Tigers towing around fuel trailers? Maybe so....but would setting them on fire actually disable the tank in front? It would certainly curtail the Tiger's range all of a sudden, no bad thing in itself.

Also this idea of bouncing .50 calibre bullets off the road into the belly of the tank.....superb idea, but would it actually have worked in principle? What penetrating energy would a .50cal round have after hitting a road hard enough to bounce it? Even if it did hit the bottom armour, it would be at a very shallow angle and already tumbling/misshapen....I would have thought it would just bounce off. What do others think?

It's my understanding that British Commonwealth & US pilots together overestimated their kills of tanks (not necessarily other vehicles, which were lost in the thousands) by close to 50:1 in Normandy (claims/German records of losses)....this video might an example of why. Note however that if I remember correctly German losses refer to writeoffs, not damaged vehicles able to be repaired....that would certainly be more.