Interesting ! I've seen a great many photos of Tigers on rail cars but never seen one with the turret facing to the rear like that.
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Interesting ! I've seen a great many photos of Tigers on rail cars but never seen one with the turret facing to the rear like that.
A hole punched in the side of a Tiger II's turret by a 165 mm HESH round during British tests. The impact dislodged the 13-ton turret, lifting it up and out of its ring in the opposite direction. A 109 kg (240 lb) scab of metal smashed around inside the tank, vaporising some of the simulated crew and breaking internal components.
https://tankhistoria.com/experimental/tiger-ii-vs-hesh/
Original colour photo of panzers on the Eastern Front ... (looks like photo is mislabelled Summer 1941 -- but that looks like a long-barreled Pz IV on the right, so more likely 1942)
Pz IIIJ in southern Russian steppes, Sept 1942.
Pz IIIJ in southern Russian steppes, Sept 1942.
Excellent demonstration of how absurdly large the Maus would have been. The Tiger turret resting on top of the Maus turret looks tiny in comparison.
Whoa.
That's hard to believe.
Good pic.
That's hard to believe.
Good pic.
General Guderian observing Ferdinand gunnery practice in 1943, presumably before Kursk.
Size of that Ferdinand makes the 88 barrel look skinny.
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Curious Dutch civilians are the remains of a German V-1 rocket, April 1945.
One I was not familiar with.....
2.8 cm schwere Panzerbüchse 41 (sPzB 41) or "Panzerbüchse 41" was a German anti-tank weapon working on the squeeze bore principle. Officially classified as a heavy anti-tank rifle (German: schwere Panzerbüchse), it would be better described, and is widely referred to, as a light anti-tank gun.
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2.8 cm schwere Panzerbüchse 41 (sPzB 41) or "Panzerbüchse 41" was a German anti-tank weapon working on the squeeze bore principle. Officially classified as a heavy anti-tank rifle (German: schwere Panzerbüchse), it would be better described, and is widely referred to, as a light anti-tank gun.
2.8 cm sPzB 41 - Wikipedia
Never seen anything quite like that before.
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I saw the picture online in an article on the Warfare History Network.
My first thought was "that's the biggest mother machine gun I ever saw".
Not sure if you can see the article with out an account.
Let me know if you can and I will post more article.
warfarehistorynetwork.com
My first thought was "that's the biggest mother machine gun I ever saw".
Not sure if you can see the article with out an account.
Let me know if you can and I will post more article.
Allied Storm in Southern France
By Christopher Miskimon U.S. Army Sergeant Vere Williams listened to his instincts as his landing craft approached the beach. It was August 15, 1944, and his unit, the 157th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Division was part of the invasion force for Operation Dragoon, the landings along France’s...
warfarehistorynetwork.com
This guy's Youtube channel is my new favorite.
"The last surviving strength report produced by the Germans dated April 10, 1945, reported 489 operational Hetzers on the Eastern Front, 79 operational on the Western Front, and 64 operational in Italy. By the end of the war, Germany had produced a total of 1,577 Hetzers. With its superb attributes as a tank destroyer, it remains one of the most renowned and unique German fighting vehicles of the late war period."
Tiger field maintenance unit.
