Originally Posted by
Hydro Junkie
Your source could very well be correct as mine had some questions about accuracy and has since been pulled down. Then again, any information coming from the Russian Front is subject to question since the Russians weren't really forthcoming on losses and many of the German records were lost/destroyed.
True. And the regular cannon rounds might have been enough to mess up the early German tanks, which weren't as heavily armored as the later versions, and which were, to the Germans' surprise, inferior to the Russian tanks when the Germans invaded Russia. I do recall reading somewhere that the P-39's cannons tended to jam after the first couple of rounds, but that may have been solved by the time they started shipping the N and Q versions to Russia.
I've always had a soft spot for the P-39. My father worked for Bell for a while early in the war, and I grew up in a house which had a solid metal model of the P-39 sitting on a table in the living room. No idea what happened to it.