Wittmann Tiger Normandie.

**HistoryMan** · 06-03-2017, 03:05 PM

by The Devil's Bank

It doesn't bear thinking about, it would have been a inferno inside that tank, and I'm quite sure every thing inside would have melted..

Surely it couldn't be... but..

I "found" this picture, of the Caen-Falaise Road, August 1944:

https://legionmagazine.com/en/wp-con...3/02/Copp2.jpg

You never know

Imagine being the poor Padre's that had to go and remove remains from burned out Tanks (Allied) I have heard many tales of remains, or what was left, being removed in small ammunition box's. Also sometimes, all that was left was a pool of fat in the bottom of the tank !

Horrendous , I really do not know how they did it, the horrors our veterans had to endure, I simply cant comprehend it

Cheers

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**Paul D** · 06-03-2017, 04:09 PM

One of the best accounts of the body recovery from Tanks is by Leslie Skinner Padre of the Sherwood Rangers , a truly awful job but he did it so the other crews didn;t have to see what remained, even though they knew what happened if you got brewed up.

**Danmark** · 06-03-2017, 09:46 PM

Sorry if this is a bit grisly but it puts things in perspective.

**The Devil's Bank** · 06-03-2017, 10:01 PM

Just imagine being in a "Sherman".. facing those Tigers..

**HistoryMan** · 06-03-2017, 10:43 PM

by The Devil's Bank

Just imagine being in a "Sherman".. facing those Tigers..

" Best job i ever had ! "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWnipuKYAs

**CINDERSII** · 06-04-2017, 02:39 AM

A Firefly got Wittmann up the tailpipe so was probably stored ammo that blew the turret off, Villers Bocage will always be Wittmans crowning glory to show what a small group of well commanded Tigers could do.

From my library missing from my pic that I have is ~ Sledgehammers by Willbeck flaws & weaknesses of the Tiger combat tactics, The Tiger Tank By Roger Ford, Tigers in the Mud By Otto Carius.

What it was like! WWII footage of a dead French crew being removed from their Sherman after being hit on the top Rt of the gun mantlet by an "88" be WARNED this is very graphic by its very nature.
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&r...fTCxNTkUC1LiAg

**The Devil's Bank** · 06-17-2017, 10:22 PM

Found this... is this what Joe Ekins saw??

Look at 1.14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8djHbHald8

**Martin Bull** · 08-18-2018, 09:12 PM

by Martin Bull

For anyone interested, there's a double-page colour spread of the Brummbar relics in Heimdal's 'Normandie 1944' magazine, HS #5 ( which also includes 'La Mort de Wittmann'....)

Just a heads-up here that most of the above is included in the just-published translation of Georges Bernage's book 'Objectif Falaise' ( 'Objective Falaise - 8 August 1944/16 August 1944', Pen & Sword , ISBN 1473857627 ).

**The Devil's Bank** · 08-20-2018, 01:08 AM

Cheers Martin

**CINDERSII** · 08-20-2018, 05:37 AM

Some idea of what some tank crews faced and what some poor chaps had to go through to retrieve the bodies if your squemish dont open it up the tank was hit on the Rt side of the gun mantlet decapitating the gunner and blowing a pumpkin sized hole through the tank commanders body its not pretty.
I do not know if it was a Tiger, Panther, TD or a DP88mm that took this tank out it is pretty close to the event as the tank is still smoking and the bodies are not burned.
From #86 YouTube