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Thursday, January 3, 2019

Catching a "big cat"


The British wanted to capture a Tiger tank during WW2 for technical/performance evaluation. Here is a short story of that capture.



4 comments:

  1. I always thought the Tigers were later in the War.

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  2. I had to watch Kelly's Heroes after watching that. Thankfully, my eldest son was up, and hadn't seen it . . .

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  3. Lots of good info on tanks with these video's.
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp4j9Y9L6jie44iZroCb99A

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  4. Hey Odie. I did reply earlier, but noticed my post had disappeared. I replied at length, but in a nutshell the first Tigers came off the assembly line in August of 1942 and went into service immediately. The Tiger l's were produced until August of 1944 (1,347) when production switched to the King Tigers until the end of the war. There were several different variants produced of both types with a little over 400 of the Tiger II's built.

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