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09-22-2016 06:10 PM
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Could we have a daylight photo with no flash please?...
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I'll try mate
The picture of Wittmanns Tiger, photographed in 1946 (I think?) is wrong really..
Spitfires flying over the Caen battlefields, took Recce photo's and The turret was lying by the side of the Panzer and not behind as shown.
Possibly during it's removal, the Tiger was "pulled" forward off it's tracks. Hence the position of the Turret.
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Possibly during it's removal, the Tiger was "pulled" forward off it's tracks. Hence the position of the Turret.
You're quite correct - the famous ( and unique ) pic shows no sign of the tracks, either on the tank or in the grass. The French scrap dealers got to work very quickly after the war and it wasn't hard to knock out a track pin, hitch a tractor to the tank and pull it forward off the tracks.
( Fantasy thought : if those guys had put the tracks in a barn somewhere their families could be wealthy now.... ' Original Track Link From Michael Wittmann's Tiger : £5000.00 BIN or Make Me An Offer....' )
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I believe I've seen a doc with a French collector who has the floor piece , it looked to match the photo . I believe it might have been Canadian production .
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I think you're right - it was a good documentary and was shown over here on Channel 4 IIRC a few years ago. Sadly, I don't think it's available on DVD. It presented a reasonably convincing case for the Sherbrookes having 'got' Wittmann from cover at Gaumesnil, physically much closer to the Tigers than the Northants were.
At this stage, no-one is ever going to be 100% certain but for sure, the Tigers drove straight into a perfect trap and literally had nowhere to hide. Here's a photo I took in the late '90s looking across the general area where Wittmann was killed - it almost looks like a shooting range. Interesting point : although I didn't realize it at the time, the concrete pylons are the originals which were there in 1944......
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Hi Martin. The dvd is available....see this link.
Battlefields.ca | Battlefield Mysteries DVD
Cheers Dan
" I'm putting off procrastination until next week "
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