Great single tank performances

Not as I recall. The losses included 20 Cromwells and 3 Fireflies AFAIK.
I will reread the passage and get back to you 8)

Reread..Panzer Aces states 27 British tanks knocked out. Wittmann's Tiger had a roadwheel disabled by a flanking shot from an AT gun and they bailed out. That night after the remaining British units withdrew from Villers Bocage Wittmann and his crew recovered his Tiger and it was repaired and back in service by the next morning.

 

Do they specify what kind of tanks were lost? Remember, the records of the time don't always match reality... Unfortunately.

 

If you prefer British sources to German... Michael Reynolds (British) in STEEL INFERNO gives the British losses as 20 Cromwells, 4 Fireflies,, 3 Stuarts, 3 Artillery Shermans, 14 halftacks and 2 6pd carriers.
Anyway you look at it, a remarkable tally.

 

Since you guys don't want any Tiger stories, then how about a JagdPanther story ?

KBO

 

OK :smok:

 

correct me if i'm wrong but on gold beach a crab tank drove up and saw a TD shooting at the shermans comming up the beach it fired i once and missed then the TD just kept shooting away at the beach it fires twice and misses again the third shot hit square and blew it :kill: :kill:

 

try this website

http://www.feldgrau.net/phpBB2/index.php

 

why dont you guys want tiger stories?

and the thing about michael wittman....
In total he destroyed over 130 tanks and 150 AT guns before beeing knoked out by a Sherman Firefly.

a bit more funny things of michael wittman: I remember something about he was set to train new tankers and by one occation he fell at his way over to his class and of course as any student would have done they lough of him and by that he gave them 1 month of work at a german coal mine :kill: OWNED :kill:

 

Because there are way too many of them out there already, and because they give you a wrong idea of what the war was like; after all there were less than 2000 Tigers in the world, ever, counting all types.

 

Re: Jagdpanther

on 25th february 1945 near stargard in pommerania sgt major Bix of the 4th Panzer division knocked out 16 russian tanks in three seprate actions in a Jagdpanther.

 

Grieg:
Shermans were present at Tarawa--M2A2--as well as Japanese Type 95 "HA-GO" light tanks with 37mm main gun.
The shermans were from First Tank Corps,
HQ, 1st, 2nd and 3rd platoons, each with 4 shermans.

"During the battle some of these tanks roamed Betio while others were dug in as immobile pillboxes. The only tank battle on Tarawa happened somewhere around Red Beach 1. One of the new Marine M-4 Sherman tanks, named China Gal, was advancing across the beach when a type 95 suddenly appeared. China Gal's commander, Lt Edward Bale, fired his tank's 75mm gun at the Japanese light tank, destroying it. However, whoever this Japanese tanker was, he was fast. His incredible shot went right down the tube of China Gal. That 37mm round destroyed China Gal's main gun making it an armored machine gun for the rest of the battle."
(taken from tarawaontheweb website.)

After the smoke cleared on the last day, only Colorado and China Gal had survived the fight. Other tanks present and knocked-out:
Chicago, Cobra, Cuddles, Cannonball, Charlie and Condor and others not identified.
The First Tank Corp Shermans had an ELEPHANT painted on each side of the tank's hull, with trunk extended blowing smoke.
Hope this clarifies things. Shermans were a BIG HELP on Tarawa at different times in the battle.

Tim

 

what about the outstanding tank feats achieved by Michael wittman and his crew

 

Another one to beat ''Wittmann fan club'' :
http://www.fun-online.sk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1076

and

http://www.fun-online.sk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2211

by David Lehmann

Does any 1/72 kits of Char B1bis exist?

 

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Yes, I got one.

It's a kit made by matchbox and it includes a B1, an FT 17, some soldiers as well as some ruins.

 

I have made that as well!

A review of the kit - apparently it is 1:76...

http://miniatures.de/html/int/matchbox- ... ar-B1.html

 

If i could only find one. BTW it is 1/76.

 

Yes, sorry.

It's a long time ago that I made it....

 

tanks vs. ships

In Guderian (I think, but maybe Mellinthin (sp ?), there is an account of German tanks (possibly Mark IV's) that destroyed a Russian WW I battleship early on in Barbarossa. I think I remember that the ship was in the Black Sea.