The popular youtube of the last investigation into Wittmann's demise, forgets/omits several facts.
The farmhouse where the contact took place, had previously been occuppied by Wehrmacht troops, and was defensively occupied by British/Canadian forces. What's standard practice, when defending a site against expected armoured attack. ?
An eye whitness, who first found the hulk remains of Wittmann's tank , in 1945, stated that there were no holes through the sides, only a large hole inside engine bay. A point blank encounter could NOT have produced this shot.
If it was a lobbed shot, it would have had to have come from a distance, via a Firefly, or even, as happened in Normandy, a 3.7 " anti aircraft gun, from some distance, vectored onto the grid reference.
The other glaring possibilty, is that, as viewed in the programme, parts of the floor where shattered from a huge explosion, not a brew-up. A mine, German or British.
_________________ "Don't quote me on that !" Sumerian military expert, Sumeria 3,000 B.C
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