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You might know my dilema...
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 2:10 PM
You might know my dilema if your in the armor or D-day GB forum. I need some help researching the battle of Villers-Bocage on June 13th, 1944. Thats the battle where Tiger ace Micheal Wittman did some whooping on our shermies (he destroyed like 30 vehicals or something like that!). I've soaked up a lot of info on the battle from the D-day GB and the armor forum, but I was wondering what books I should get if I wanted some detailed info on whittman's tanks he used. I know he used a tank 205 and a borrowed tank 222 on that day, but I don't know what tanks he used for what and what each tank's divisional markings were. I know he died in tank 007 on August 8th, but thats a different story...So many questions...Dunce [D)] But any info an what books, what websites or personal knowlegde would be awsome! Thanks for reading!Cool [8D]
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Posted by cassibill on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 2:42 PM
Does this help?:
http://www.ifrance.com/maquette81/ss101gbd.htm

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 4:11 PM
doe's this help
http://users.pandora.be/dave.depickere/Text/wittman.html
http://www.panzerace.net/main/intro.asp
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/gen3.htm
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 6:09 PM
"Hitler's Enforcers" (ISBN 1-85409-273-1)has a section on Herr Wittman.
Also has Josef "Sepp" Dietrich, Willi langkeil (GD), Rommel, Witzig ET Al.
An interesting read overall.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 6, 2004 11:21 AM
theres a big write up on Villers-Bocage in Then and Now, Panzers in Normandy book
and Tiger 1 by Ewe and Feist
and
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 6, 2004 11:58 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Captain Caveman

theres a big write up on Villers-Bocage in Then and Now, Panzers in Normandy book
and Tiger 1 by Ewe and Feist
and


The "Panzers in Normandy; Then and now" version is good, it has good pics and good illustrations, the down side is that it doesn't mention the tank numbers.
Tigers in combat II by Wolfgang Schneider have some text and pics, the text also includes the tank numbers.
The part that I wrote in one of your earlier threads about this was taken from this book.
Try and read as many different versions as you can. I have read about 4 different versions of the battle.
Its one of the problems with these extremely famous battles, all the experts have their own version and its difficult to know which is the right one.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 6, 2004 12:24 PM
I'm doing tank 222, wittman's borrowed tiger... Thanks everyone!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 1:11 PM
Armor master! While browsing through the reference material pages I stumbled upon your inquiry about Wittmanns tiger tanks, and I have a pretty good reference for you from an unlikely source. Check out the book entitled "ACES 3" by Wayne Patton. This book is a Squadron/ Signal publication, and it deals primarily with Aircraft fighter aces from the World wars, which is probably why you missed it! There is an interesting section in the book about high scoring armor aces (pgs. 57-60) that contain 8 color renditions of many of the vehicles Wittmann used throughout his amazing career. The pictures all have FS standard equivalent numbers for the illustrated colors on each vehicle. There is also a pretty good picture of Tiger # 205 that you mentioned in your question, plus a well detailed story of Wittmanns exploits! This book should also be easy to find, since all well stocked hobby shops carry Squadron/Signal books. Hope this is not to late considering the date you posted your inquiry! Heja 1
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