戦記も見つけた。米のサイトね。
http://www.daileyint.com/seawar/seawar8.htm
At Salerno ranges, the 88 shell was in a very flat trajectory,
where a "miss was as good as a mile", usually more.
They had to hit you directly and hope you had enough metal
to set off their fuze, which was essentially designed to be anti tank, armor piercing.)
Tigerの側が使ったのは対戦車用の徹甲弾で、
交戦距離は88mmがちゃんと低伸する程度の距離だったのだね。

んで
he told vividly of tanks piled up in rubble and how attack after attack
of the German forces had been blunted, and finally turned back, and the beachhead made secure.
大量の独戦車がスクラップと化して、ドイツの反抗は潰えた。橋頭堡は確保された。
という結果に終わったのですね。

んで次の文。
photographs showing the terrific damage inflicted on twelve German tanks.
They were piled up like scrap iron. Many of us were truly amazed at the localization
of effective blast damage from concentrated 5" 38 HC fire.
12両のドイツ戦車をスクラップに追い込んだのは、5インチ砲のHCfire
つまり、陣地攻撃用の炸裂弾が使われたようですね。