[Zambini]

Belton Coopers book "Death Traps" is propably the best first person report on this subject

[Hetzerstarr]

The crew is french, they were 5 and 2 of them died. Jean Bouclet (pic) was the tank commander, hit in the trunk, the beheaded one was the radio man Philippe Cadiot. This happened in Normandy, on August 13, 1944.

[BlogZilla]

Nice ass. I want to fuck it :)

[Mr_Shlaapu]

Originally Posted by wilcox009 ↗

I'm always amazed by the physics of a tank hit. It almost uses the tanks armor as the projectile against the crew. Inside that tank is just swarming with molten shrapnel bouncing around a steel box in an instant. The round either bounces off or makes it a death trap in the blink of an eye.

It's called spalling when the metal does that. Caused by a tank round not penetrating and the backside of the armor has shards that fly off turning it into a meat grinder for anyone inside. In this case though the round went right through the tank breaching both sides so huge chunks of molten metal and carnage everywhere.