StuG III.

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Thanks to an Internet forum:

"Here with a listing of the top twenty German assault gun commanders of the Second World War [WW2] by number of 'kills'." Enemy armor destroyed.

Assault guns in the German parlance also accounting for prodigious number of Soviet tanks destroyed on the Eastern Front during WW2. Assault guns an artillery pieced fitted into a lightly armored tracked vehicle. Having a major anti-tank role

NOT ALONE WERE THE TIGER TANK CREWS ABLE TO "KILL" EXTRAORDINARY NUMBERS OF SOVIET ARMOR!

Here is a list of the top StuG III commanders:

Sturmgeschütz

Spranz, Bodo - 76 kills
Primozic, Hugo – 68 kills
Brandner, Josef ("Sepp") - 66 Kills
Sauer, Konrad - 65 kills
Timpe, Heinz - 59 kills
Rohrbacher, Josef - 56 kills
Witte, Albert - 56 kills
Kochanowski, Johann - 55 kills
Engelmann, Richard - 54 kills
Arnold, Friedrich - 51 kills
Fiebig, Walter - 50+ kills
Adamowitsch, Felix - 50 kills
Spielmann, Johann (Johannes) - 48 kills
Zillmann, Erich - 48 kills
Höper, Ahrend - 47 kills
Lutz, Waldemar - 47 kills
Ohler, Kurt - 47 kills
Deutsch, Heinz – 46 Kills
Przedwojewski, Felix ("Sched") - 45 kills
Bose, Georg - 44 kills

The StuG III not a tank. NO turret the gun having only a very limited traverse and elevation. The entire vehicle needing to be turned to allow the gun to be brought to bear on an adversary.

German gunners JUST PLAIN SUPERIOR TO THE SOVIET COUNTER-PART? Long-range shots a hit with the first round fired usually deciding a duel [two machines fighting it out].

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