Jagdtigers in combat? - Page 3

Von Poop · #51 (**permalink**) March 27th, 2008, 11:38 PM

My main feeling on Jagdtigers is that the one at Bovington still just makes me giggle.
"I am vanting ein uberpanzer zat vill laszt fur ein souzand yearz!!!!!!!"

I have one anecdote from David Fletcher's 'Mr Churchill's tank' (sorry for the repetition, sure I've mentioned it before, I just like it);

Postwar the main 128mm gun from one was fired at a Churchill with 3 live chickens in the turret from 100 yards range, I can only imagine they were very bored on the ranges that day.

The turret: Torn off.
The Chickens: Survived.

Cheers,
Adam.

Za Rodinu · #52 (**permalink**) March 27th, 2008, 11:51 PM

Is that a Freikörperkultur chicken?

FramerT · #53 (**permalink**) March 28th, 2008, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe

Then I have a question. How do the crew get inside the vehicle with the barbed wire on it?

Schneider's "Tigers in Combat I". Page 60.
"Barbed wire has been placed around the tanks hull to prevent enemy infantry from attempting to climb onto the tank during combat."
Another good pic on page 243. My scanner isn't working so no pictures....sorry.

Back to discussing SturmTigers in Stalingrad and prying open locked hatches.
Cheers.

Carl W Schwamberger · #54 (**permalink**) November 16th, 2008, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by FramerT

As for infantry clammering up on Tigers to pry open the hatch, very unlikely. As already mentioned, just jam a charge in the turret ring or engine fan and run.
I have read whether or not it was true about German troops rapping on the turret of a T-34 with a pistol butt to get the commander to open up.
If I knew which book it was in, there are a couple pics of either a Tiger or a Panther with barbed wire strung around it to keep infantry from climbing on.

Theres a translation pf a AAR of a French tank officer from 1940. Commanding in a squadron of H39 light tanks his troop was withdrawing from a Belgian villiage that had been assualted by a German battle group. As his tank left the villiage his driver called out that he had just run over a German soldier. In resposne to the officers inquiry the driver said a German solder had risen from the ground adjacent to the tank with a hammer and attempted to clamber onto the tank. Then slid off and under tracks. Later while inspecting the tank the officer noticed bits of fabric and flesh caught in the tracks.