"It Penetrates Steel?" – Panzer Crews Terrified When .50 Cal Tore Through 40mm Armor.
On the afternoon of January twenty-sixth, nineteen forty-five, Second Lieutenant Audie Murphy stood alone atop a burning M10 tank destroyer near the French village of Holtzwihr, gripping the handles of a fifty-caliber Browning machine gun. Below him, the vehicle's fuel tanks smoldered. Fire licked at the turret. At any moment, the ammunition inside could detonate, turning the tank destroyer into a steel coffin. But Murphy didn't move. Through the smoke and falling snow, he could see them coming. Six German tanks advancing down the narrow dirt road. Behind the armor, two hundred and fifty German infantrymen in white winter camouflage moved through the frozen fields. They were close. Too close. Within ten yards in some places. Close enough that Murphy could see their faces.
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