Panzerschreck in "Days of Glory"

I have seen the movie "Days of Glory" and in that movie are the Germans using a Panzerschreck to clear out rooms in a building. So my question is;
Is that a realistic scene? Did they use the Panzerschreck in that way?

Thanks,
Paul

 

probably, after all the US and Brits used the Bazooka and PIAT respectivly to clear out areas. (I recall in the PIAT thread Sapper said [?] that the PIAT was sometimes used as a sort of morter)

 

Depends where you were shooting from!

Bazooka and Panzerschreck were very dangerous to shooter and comrades when shot inside buildings, with tens of yards of rocket flame from their tailpipes ricocheting off walls. Remember the whole rocket was burnt through before the bomb left the tube, so the flare was short and very severe.

PIAT, OTOH, attracted much adverse comment of various sorts, but being a spigot gun with no rocketry, it could be safely shot from indoors - and the bomb was at least as effective against whatever it hit.

Regards,
MikB

 

Yep it is. Not sure how effective the shaped charge was, pretty I guess or they wouldnt have done it.

 

I have read first person accounts of soldiers using bazookas to damage or eliminate opposing forces in buildings. They did very little elaboration on the effects of the warhead. I wonder if was used because of the heat (not HEAT), the blast concusion, whether from the warhead exploding or the it simply hitting the structure at a high rate of speed or did it have flashbang effect, needing to hit a soft part such as a door or through an open window?

 

I think one needs to distinguish between what was/is officially sanctioned, and what soldier's in the field did/do. In many circumstances soldiers use any and everything when a situation required it. So we could debate how effective a 'schreck or bazooka was but chances are a soldier would most likely would have used it for such a situation if to hand.

Now for some fun? What was the daftest depiction of an hand-held anti-tank weapon in a movie? For me it has to be Rambo's use of the M72 LAW in the helicopter! Why weren't his passengers shredded? :icon_rofl:

 

a more realistic scenario would be to use the standard Pazerfaust 100. Panzerschreck 54 was relegated to the AT sections of the Panzerkompanies or anti-tank kompanies of the existing Infantrie regt and or Sturm Abteliungs.