The document is available here:LachenKrieg wrote: ↑14 Dec 2020, 17:39I am currently interested in the topic of battle effectiveness of the 50mm L/60 gun mounted on the PzIII M against T-34/Sherman tanks, and found this thread to be a very interesting read. The discussion still leaves room for questions though, and I was hoping that anyone with more insight on this topic might be able to provide some of the answers for me.
To start, the above bold text states that of the 89 hits to the upper front detail that were examined, approximately 30 of them were caused by 50-mm shells. Is the 11% of cases where penetrations occurred referring to 11% of the 50-mm hits, or the 11% of the total number of hits on the front detail?
https://t34inform.ru/doc/1942-11-03_NII-48_T-34.html
As far as I can tell there were 109 examined "hits" of the upper front armor, of them 43 were attributed to 50-mm guns. Of them 5 were dangerous (penetrations) and 38 safe which gives than 11:89 proportions. Of the total 109 hits, 89 were "safe" and in 20 cases the armor was broken and penetrated. Naturally, the numbers were pretty small to derive some reliable statistics.