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April 10th, 2003, 08:32 PM
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Can anyone provide alist of the turret numbers for those tigers in villers bocage and the panzer lehr Mk IV?
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Again, I'd point you towards ATB 'Villers Bocage Through The Lens', which includes details of the Tigers. Mk IVs, I don't know.
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April 10th, 2003, 11:01 PM
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Cheers, got that book, but I am convinced that another Tiger followed Wittman into Villers Bocage. Want to check the numbers to find out whose tanks they were.
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April 11th, 2003, 10:30 PM
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Incidentally, there is a new book on Villers Bocage coming out this summer in France. It is being published by the excellent French '39-45' magazine and will be in both French and English. What I have heard of it, it promises to be good.
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April 12th, 2003, 03:30 PM
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Really? can you let us know if you here any more? We are looking at increasing the role of Villers-Bocage on our Normandy trip so it would be interesting to see a knew book... You dont know the author?
Hmmmm... my tutor has a book out about tanks in normandy soon... 
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Yes its not that one. it is a lot more expensive. Can't wait till its published though. it will by all accounts be a must but, despite its price.
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April 15th, 2003, 04:38 PM
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Is this book from the huge Heimdal editions firm ?
Yes Wittmann's whole company made an attack on Villers Bocage with Wittmann taking on the bulk of the British column while the rest of the Tiger Kompanie was involved elsewhere.
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The new Heimdal book on Villers is an update on Henri Marie's original 1993 'Villers Bocage, Tigres Au Combat. Le Champ De Battaille'. It has a section by Schneider re-assesing Wittmans tally (should be no more than 10). It also looks closely at the Dyas version about meeting Wittmann head on at the top of the Rue Pasteur. I have no advance information about the contents of the book but I know Henri Marie (like me) now believes this version to be incorrect. As for the turret numbers of the Tiger wrecks in Villers the only solid evidence is for 112. 111 is almost certain as is 212.
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