[Milsurplus] OT: tank gunnery question

[Hubert Miller]

Okay, pretty OT here, but...it's easy, and I can't think of where otherwise to ask, right offhand.
So I'm reading this book, a "fictionalized account based on real events". An M-4 shoots at a Panzer at a called out range of 1500 yards.
The commander says something like, "Missed ! Up 200 ! "   It seems to me that 200 yard miss on a tank shot is kinda unbelievable. That's
like a crazy wild shot, isn't it? I think 200 yard adjustment is more like field artillery getting the range.  I suspect the author of the book talked
to tankers, but was never in one in combat. In the book account, the minority members Army soldiers threaten to off a Colonel who orders
them into a sacrificial attack. Fantasy, I say. Title of book on request. I heard an interview with author around 1980 while living in Seattle; just
bought the book to finally complete another item on the big list.
-Hue Miller
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