One of two known examples, this one fought at Kursk, captured at Anzio, studied in Virginia and now on loan to Bovington, quite a travel history. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/159225efa9e8c321
Exciting news indeed - it'll be on display from April and I must visit ! http://www.tankmuseum.org/year-news/bovnews53855
This is one of the few places I know where if you mention an elephant is coming people would not expect it to be a rather large animal from Africa or Asia ! If there are only two I wonder where the other resides ?
Ivan has it in Kubinka http://svsm.org/gallery/elephant/IMGP3175 EDIT: Sorry, didn't see Martin's post
A good thing about this is that it's given me an incentive to go away & read up about the Elefant. I know the basics, but I've always just written it off as an overcomplicated & compromised white (sorry! :FUallplz: ) elephant. I'm looking forward to going through my little Tiger library over the holiday to find out more.....
Sounds great. North of Kursk alone the remainder of these beasts destroyed some 500 Soviet tanks after the Zitadelle was over. As you can guess the landscape was without big obstacles and trees....
Wonderful as it was as a weapon, the Germans got it all wrong. Their procurement plans simply could not match the Soviet ability to produce armoured vehicles on a massive scale. Mass completely overwhelmed quality. The Germans would have done better to have concentrated on building many more Panzer Mk 3s and Panzer Mk 4s instead of behemoths like this. Hitler was a fool. Beasts like the Elefant just added to their lack of fuel problems by this time in the war. They were never going to reverse the disaster that was unfolding on the Eastern Front. Regards Frank
You're right. I reckon we should just crate it up and send it straight back to the USA....... :adolf:
