Even a review board report doesn't give you a barometer of how different things may or may not be. If you went by personal accounts then every German tank fielded during the war was a Tiger tank. The fact is that personal accounts isn't a good barometer of powder qualities. When we fire our 76-mm there is so much smoke and muzzle flash that you can hardly observe your burst, except for long ranges." "Due to the type of powder a Jerry tank has, they can fire at you and are difficult to pick up because there is so little smoke or muzzle flash. Harris, Corporal, Gunner, 2nd Armored Division: "The German use of smokeless powder makes it very difficult for us to pick them up when they lie in ambush, whereas the flash of our own guns is easily discernible to an alert foe and may be easily observed from a great distance."Įverette L.
Johnson, Captain, Company F, 66th Armored Regiment: But you can certainly find video of WWII German tanks and PaKs firing, and they are neither smokeless nor flashless. I'm unaware of any reports complaining about the use of these propellants in tanks (and I'm not sure that tanks used the same formulation anyway). While some in the US did note that the use of flashless/smokeless powder by German (and Japanese!) forces did give them some advantages, these reports deal only with rifles and machine guns.
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