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Focke Wulf 190 Strafing American Troop and Convoys

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Posted by plasticjunkie on Sunday, February 18, 2018 12:41 PM

Back in the early 1980s I spoke to an older gentleman who had been an Officer in the US Army in WWII. He was in an artillery unit that had been wiped out by the Germans and he was one of the few survivors that were able to regroup and hitch a ride on a Sherman tank unit. They eventually ran into several German Tigers that just about decimated the Sherman unit. He said all you could do was to try to shoot the treads and running gear and run like hell to get away from those deadly 88s. He said the German tanks like the Tiger and Panther could beat anything we had but we just happened to have more.

As I have read, the way to kill a Tiger was to smother it with several Shermans. Sheer overwhelming numbers contributed IMO to defeat German technology.

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Posted by Mopar Madness on Sunday, February 18, 2018 9:27 AM

Excellent story from a true perspective! Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to seeing the 190. Beer

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Posted by Hodakamax on Sunday, February 18, 2018 9:19 AM

Important history heard from people who were there. My uncle fought in North Africa against Rommel as a tank commander. He lost three tanks, one to a straffing Me-109. He was always quiet and didn't say much about it. Occassionally he would open up to me and tell stories about his five year stay. I was just a kid but I remember it all as it was yesterday. I still have his medals.

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Posted by silentbob33 on Sunday, February 18, 2018 8:43 AM
Thanks for sharing that story. My great uncle also fought in the Battle of the Bulge in the 3rd Army and was eventually wounded bad enough that he spent the rest of the war playing trombone in Eisenhower's band. He never really talked much about combat, and as far as I know I'm the only one he ever talked to about it after I came back from Iraq. All I could do was sit and listen as the stories came out that he had been keeping inside for more than 60 years. I agree with you that hearing the history from the people that lived it is much better than reading it from a book. The build that you have planned sounds like it will be really cool. I hope you do a WIP and post some pictures for us.

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Focke Wulf 190 Strafing American Troop and Convoys
Posted by Johnny Reb on Saturday, February 17, 2018 9:19 PM

Hi everybody. As I get older, I realize how important my dads WW2 stories have become in recent years. He was in the Battle of the Bulge in the American 3rd army, Infantry, and had moved all the way into Austria the last few months of the war. I have one of his Bronze Stars with me right now, along with it's citation "For action against the enemy on or around April 18, 1945". 

I remember way back when, as a very young boy in the 60's, him telling me about the sheer terror of driving in convoy and then, without warning, those big, powerful and fast Focke Wulf 190's would scream down on them and opening up on them with four 20 mm cannons wreaking absolute havoc. The convoys would be torn to pieces and there were American soldier body parts everywhere. My father said in sheer anger, he would fire at these planes with his M1 Garand. These planes were strongly built and were designed to take lots of fire. If my own father hadn't told me about it, then I certainly would never have known, since most news tells about allied victories as if there were no other alternative. My dad was a decorated American soldier and yet, he was always a bit in awe about the German fighting machine and just how powerful, capable, and deadly it really was. In fact, his words were to the effect that the only reason America did as well as it did was because it had much more 'stuff' then Germany, but Germany had the best weapons, including many of it's soldiers.

Straight from a real American fighting man that was really there and really was in combat and really did shoot, and kill, Germans; "It was the Russians on the Eastern front that really bore the full brunt of Germany's fighting force. Anything in the west was a "mop up" (fierce as the fighting was) to basically stop Russia from overtaking all of western europe, which was what would have happened, had not the allied forces stopped the Russians at the river Elbe, near Berlin. American and Russian troops would trade weapons for Mickey Mouse watches.... and then take "pot shots" at each other across the river. Both armies knew they could annhialate the other.

I love history; the real stuff straight from real eyewitness accounts and as a result, my next build will be the much feared FW190 possibly in a strafing diorama against the American " Red Ball Express"

 

I'll keep you guys posted throughout and any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

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