Black 405 of 13./schwere SS-Panzer-Regiment
1, "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" (LSSAH), Belogorod/USSR,
20 April 1943
This day Generaloberst
Heinz Guderian, Inspector of the Armored Forces, visited 13./SS-Pz.Rgt.1
and SS-Untersturmführer Michael Wittmann presented
his crew and brand new Tiger I, one of just six operational in
the unit. Wittmann, although already recognised as an accomplished
commander of a Sturmgeschütz III, would soon
rise to fame during the Kursk battle and especially during a
21-day period in January 1944 fighting in Ukraine where he and
his crew destroyed 61 Soviet tanks.
The text and profile
is from my profile book, Profiles of German tanks, Panzer book
No II
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this profile is refined since 2015 and now updated to my latest
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