Blody hell. I bet thats a bit of a conversation piece. You lucky bastard
I think there are a few other things in theTigers favour. While its entry into service was relativly smooth the Panther was, to put it bluntly, a disaster. And incidents like Villers-Bocage go a long way to help.

I had a first hand account of the Tiger myth a cople of years ago. While at Cassino, our group ran into a vet who had been there in 44. He was an Artillery obsrver. He said that he spent several days in a house calling down fire. nd just down the road a German tank was hiding in another house doing the same. And he always called it a Tiger. And while i did not contradict the old boy, he was here, i was not, there is no evidence that Tigers were anywhere near Cassino. But, as said before, every tank was a Tiger.

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