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″″″″″″JUST COMMENTARYS! JUST A COMMENTARY! You sought some Commentaries! Did You NOT?

Hauptsturmführer = - possibly a "kapten" but these SS grades was special! Eq in Wehrmacht Hauptmann! Wittman Michael Waffen SS LSSAH 101 Regiment Schwer Panzer Abt was, according to Norm Christie (DISCOVERY (World)

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================================================================= Channel less than 160meter (153m)from Sherbrooke Fusilers Firefly Shermans (Sherman with 17 pounder(8,0kg Dim 76,2mm x 583 mm with howitzer antitankgrenade [REF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_17-pounder 4191 mm barrel] antitank gun - new mounted on Shermans)It blow a hole i left cooling gitter of Wittmans Tiger #007 [REF: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II] which subsequnetly lead to an explosion of driving stuff(Maybach 8 cyl diesel - HL230 P30 515kW 700hkr][REF: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II] and also ammunition stored in the tower!

There WAS a airplane involved - but the rockets it fired on these Tiger from LSSAH 101 reg SS (Schwer Panzer Abt] FAILED - and there was four{4) of these heavy Tigers in the field - and 3 of them were shot up and eliminated between Gaumesnil /Cntheaux on 8 aug 1944. So, the best You Do IS tO CONTACT NORM CHRISTIE at DISCOVERY - I can not think he will "protest" och make a fuzz about this! Instead I think he will assist in make this "chapter on Wittman Michael "Die Schware Barone" eller "Die bösen" which all SS Abt were called since they were "political" or very politicised threw their military (Waffen-SS) connection/affiliation!

About the 17 pounder - Gun in the Turret of Sherman - they had to mount the Gun 90 Degrees of original way it was mounted - just to get it to fit in the Tower of the Sherman! That was the ENGLISH and Canadian who did this, becuse the 75 mmm gun with short barrel did NOT do the job against German tanks! IE TO PUT A HOLE IN THEM! Not even on 50 yeards! Muzzel velocity was to weak compared to Tigers 88 mm 9,5 kg grenade. originally the german 88mm was an AntiArírcraft howitzer which could deliver a grenade nearluý 9 kg 6000-8000 meter up in the air!

The ONLY way to put a hole in a Tiger - fram a Sherman -<was to set the grenade to hit between the turret and the tankbody! Sherman was built for massproduction to kill off German infantrysoldeers - not tanks or made for "specialitíes", like Sir Maj Gen. Percy Hobarts funnies! ″″″″″″″″″″″″″″″