Germans Called P-47's 8 .50 Cals "Overkill" — Until 3,752 Luftwaffe Planes Were Shredded
Автор: The Partisan Path
Загружено: 2025-11-15
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March twenty-eighth, nineteen forty-three, Luftwaffe tactical headquarters, Deelen Airfield, Netherlands. Major Egon Mayer studied intelligence photographs of the new American fighter scattered across his desk. The silhouette was unmistakable, massive single-engine design, blunt nose, eight weapon ports visible along each wing. His annotation in the margin of the intelligence report, preserved in Bundesarchiv records, revealed the German fighter command's initial assessment: "Amerikanische Verschwendung. Eight heavy machine guns on single-seat fighter represents typical American excess. Tactically wasteful."
The word Mayer used, Verschwendung, translates directly as wastefulness or squandering. To experienced Luftwaffe pilots who had mastered the art of precision cannon fire, the P-forty-seven Thunderbolt's eight fifty-caliber machine guns represented everything wrong with American military thinking. Crude. Excessive. Inefficient. Overkill in its most literal sense, more firepower than any rational combat doctrine required.
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