Top 10 Panzer Ace of the German Army (Kurt Knispel, Otto Carius, Michael Wittmann and the others…)

Top 10 Panzer Ace of the German Army (Kurt Knispel, Otto Carius, Michael Wittmann and the others…)

Panzer ace is a term used to describe highly-decorated German tank commanders. These commanders were credited with the destruction of large numbers of tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles. This can be attributed to the skills they gained through many years of combat.
Most of the successful German tank commanders served in units equipped with Tigers tanks between mid-1943 and mid-1944. The confidence which the crews of Tigers and the operators of other relatively advanced weapons had in the capabilities of their equipment may have reinforced their ideological conditioning, and encouraged them to take higher risk in combat. But numbers of successes by highly decorated soldiers should be approached with caution as it is rarely possible to determine reliably, in the heat of the battle, how many tanks were destroyed and by whom. The German intelligence service on the Eastern Front, routinely reduced the reported number of Soviet tanks being destroyed by 30 per cent in their own statistics to make up for double counting and repairable vehicles.
In the Summer of 1943, German combat units claimed 16,250 tanks and assault guns destroyed. This number is really astonishing even by a 30% reduction.

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