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Hard Sarge -> RE: The most terrifying sound in WW2..... (12/20/2004 7:00:57 PM)
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I bet the sound of 88 must have been terrifying to someone sitting in a sherman somewhere in Normdany....
Well the hassle is, they didn't hear it, that is like the 76mm's that the GE captured and reused from the Russians, that they nicknamed Crash-Bangs, you heard the shell hit, then heard the gun fire
for your story about bailing out, the GE troops used to throw rocks at the shermans, a lot of times the crew would bail when the rock hit (combat in a built up area)
HARD_Sarge
from what some of the English said towards the end of the war was the worse, was the V-2 rocket, you didn't hear it, just a very Loud bang, followed later by the sound of a rocket falling (it was faster then the speed of sound) they said the V-1 wasn't too bad, as you could at least hear it coming and tell when armmed itself
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