"Cockroach" versus Panzers - first tank aces of the Second World War

[Domen123]

But anyway, the Germans lost more tanks than the Polish?

Much more. But of course only relatively small part of them was taken out by Polish tanks, the majority was taken out by artillery and AT guns.

I know the Polish Kb ppanc wz.35 7.92 mm anti-tank rifle proved to be a good weapon verse German Panzers too, such a soldier could hide in a trench and take out quite a few tanks and halftracks).

This is the effect of Kb ppanc wz.35 7.92 mm anti-tank rifle hit into the tank's armour (this particular tank is from 8. company / Panzer-Regiment 3. / 2. Panzer-Division - eliminated during the battle of Wysoka on 2nd of September 1939):

Three succesful hits (armour penetration) from AT rifle can be seen (one of them is marked):



As you can see AT rifle couldn't "destroy" a tank in a proper meaning of this word (unless it hit into the engine / fuel and set fire inside the tank or cause explosion of ammo inside the tank).

But it could damage a tank (penetrate armour) and kill / wound its crew (especcialy by splinters and fragments - because after a bullet penetrated the tank's armour, a lot of splinters and fragments were flying inside and hitting members of the crew).

It was an efficient weapon and caused many casualties to the Germans.

But - as I wrote above - tanks hit by bullets from Polish AT rifles were usually not very hard to repair (you had to patch up the hole or replace one or a few armoured plate / plates from the tank).

It was - however - much harder to "repair" those of the crew members whose heads or chests were cracked open by AT bullets or splinters .