Destroyed tanks

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  1. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Apologies if this one has been posted in the thread already. One of my favorites of Ike

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  2. Yes, it has indeed, and by your very self :wacko:. See:
    Destroyed tanks
    and it was in a better quality then :rolleyes:

    Michel
     
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  3. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    I wonder if that one was pushed over by engineers with a bulldozer after it was knocked out. Seems neatly off to the side of the road. Missing tracks might have been pushed somewhere else. Maybe an internal explosion knocked the bottom plate loose. Lots of questions :)
     
  4. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    Hummel" (Sd.Kfz. 165) from 12.SS-Pz.Div. "Hitlerjugend" 3. / SS-Pz.Art.Rgt. 12. France, in August 1944. Likely near Falaise.

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  5. Trackfrower

    Trackfrower Member

    Alsso featuring a rare Morris Recce Car

    Lawrence
     
  6. m kenny

    m kenny Senior Member

    Missing final drives mean it was picked clean of usable parts before being demolished. Very likely had some pre-existing damage and was in a roadside bay for recovery and the advancing Allies meant they had to blow it up. Missing track also indicates it was moved from its original position.

    Starts at 34 seconds. Forum will only allow links to the full original film. Any link direct to a part of a youtube film is converted to the entire clip. .




     
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  7. Ron Shaw

    Ron Shaw New Member

    Hey Gents,

    This thread is a bit old, but that particular Panther was knocked out by the Royal Regina Rifles in Bretteville. There were two tanks that drove into the town at night with no infantry support, and pulled up right beside the Bn HQ. That is when the lead panther was knocked out by a volley of PIAT shots. The second tanks beat a hasty retreat immediately after the first tank was disabled. At the same time Kurt Myer was circling the town of Bretteville losing tanks the Canadian anti-tank gunners located on the outskirts of the town. They were using para flares which blinded the tank crews and did an excellent job of lighting up the tanks for the gunners.

    Most of this information I got first hand from Gordon Brown before he passed away. Mr. Brown had been the Regimental Transportation officer, and was called up to take command of Dog Company when the company commander was killed on the 06/07 June 44. At the time Dog Company had taken over Cardonville Farm which had been captured by the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. Between the Farm and Bretteville was a set of railroad tracks that ran to the beachhead. At the same time Bn HQ was fighting to hold their position, Mr. Brown and what was left of his company were in the fight of their lives to hold the Farm and prevent a 12 SS break through to the beachhead.

    Cheers

    Ron
     
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  8. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    A soldier's remarkable story

    On 8th and 9th June, D Coy of the Royal Regina Rifle organized a resistance position against the attack of the 12 SS Hitlerjungend Division. Supported by the guns of the 13th Artillery Regiment the men of D Coy commanded by Gordon Brown force the SS in withdraw towards Le Mesnil-Patry.

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    Three RRR soldiers are observing:
    • Right: toward Norrey-en-Bessin (Adelard Farm).
    • Left: toward Carpiquet.

    Today the so called «Cardonville Farm» across the railroad is named Adelard Farm and was the SS position, Cardonville Farm was then the linen factory.

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  9. Tom OBrien

    Tom OBrien Senior Member

    Can anyone make out a unit sign on the Austin K5's in the video that Michael posted up? It looks like a unit serial number of 70 - which I think meant an infantry division's RASC companies.

    Regards

    Tom
     
  10. Do you mean these ?
    Austin K5 AoS 70 - CP 65675038884 - 0.20.jpg

    Michel
     
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  11. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    The bulk of the photographs from #281,I would say are taken from Eisenhower's two day excursion from his HQ, Shellburst at Tournieres of the Falaise Pocket which started on 26 August,a week after the pocket had been closed with the trip finishing at Chartres.....his driver....... Kay Summersby.

    The account of Eisenhower's excursion has been reproduced in ATB No 178 (November 2017) by Jacques Van Dijke...the Falaise Pocket has been covered before by the ATB in No 8, titled the "Corridor of Death"in 1975.This account is comprehensively detailed and is a further insight to the defeat of the Wehrmacht in Normandy with excellent "Then and Now" photographic comparisons.

    In his memoirs,Eisenhower recalled "scenes that could be only described only by Dante"

    While on tour,he had an impromptu meeting with two Norwegian Flight Sergeants pilots, Schrurn and Corn of either No 331 or No 332 (Norwegian) Squadrons of No 132 Wing based at B16 (Villons les Buissons) who were examining the result of their attack on a German column here a few days before.....both were carrying personal weapons and helmets were donned.

    The Tiger11 on its side was situated just outside of Vimoutiers on the N 816 to the south west.Interesting the Tiger 11 was not knocked out by the Allies.It was immobile due to what was thought to be lack of fuel.However it was left to cover retreating Germans (with its gun positioned in the rear) coming up to Vimoutiers. A crew of two,a Radio Operator,a Franz Wilhelm Lochmann and the Loader, a Willy Fischer manned the tank.The Tiger had already accounted for an Allied tank but then was abandoned and destroyed by its depleted crew.The tank is shown after it was shoved off the road causing the 13.5 ton turret to slide off the tank.....the lower damaged armour plate shown was caused by the self destruction.Apparently a week after the pocket was closed the Allies were quick to clear the main roads of damaged equipment but the route that Eisenhower anticipated taking to Chambois was still blocked which meant a detour via Gace.

    There is a good account of the experiences of civilians,mostly farmers caught up in the final stages of the collapse of German resistance in vicinity of "The Shambles" south of the pocket centred on St Lambert sur Dives and Chambois.

    Evidence of German forces too exhausted to carry on,still armed and willing the opportunity to surrender.Looting by "unknown people" of damaged equipment and the dead.

    Alan Moorhead,the War Correspondent for the Daily Express visited the area a few days before Eisenhower and later recorded what he found in his 1945 publication Ecilpse.....an extract...."Every staff car and I suppose I have seen a hundred,is packed with French loot and German equipment.There is a profusion of everything......field glasses and typewriters,pistols and small arms by the hundred,cases of wine,truckloads of food and medical stores.a vast mass of leather harness.Every car is full of clothing and every officer seems to have possessed a pair of corsets to take home".
     
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  12. Tom OBrien

    Tom OBrien Senior Member

    Michel,

    Yes, those are the ones. UoS No. 70 is pretty clear, but it looks like the front lorry has lost a mudguard that on the following vehicles seems to carry a formation badge? BTW how do you take stills from the videos?

    Regards

    Tom
     
  13. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Tom

    Simple..........................

    1. Stop video at required spot
    2. Use Snipping tool to capture image and convert to jpg
    3. If too large (i.e. more than 2mb) edit in any program that will downsize.

    The above works fine for me

    Ron
     
  14. Tom OBrien

    Tom OBrien Senior Member

    Ron,

    Thanks for the tip - I'll give it a go.

    Regards

    Tom
     
  15. RikdeDurbuy

    RikdeDurbuy Belgae Gallorum Fortissimi

    Hey Kevin,
    The house in the village of Hotton (Belgium) in front of which the destroyed Panther stood in December 1944 still exists, and is it very recognizable.
    The street's name has meanwhile changed, it's now the "Rue du Levant", near a brand new roundabout.
    Kind regards,
    Rik (I'm living close to Hotton)
     

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  17. TTH

    TTH Senior Member

    One of the Norwegians with Ike is carrying a short Mauser. From the configuration of the front sight it looks like either a Belgian M1935 or a Czech Vz 24.
     
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