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4 unusual facts about Tiger II


Archer T. Gammon

On that day, near Bastogne, Belgium, he destroyed a German machine gun position before beginning a one-man assault on a Tiger Royal tank.

Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak

Skorzeny then brazenly led a convoy of Germany troops and four Tiger II tanks to the Vienna Gates of Castle Hill.

Miklós Horthy

Skorzeny then brazenly led a convoy of German troops and four Tiger II tanks to the Vienna Gates of Castle Hill, where the Hungarians had been ordered not to resist.

Tiger tank

Tiger II, or Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B, a German heavy tank produced from 1943–1945, also known as Königstiger, King Tiger or Royal Tiger



see also

510th

510th Heavy Panzer Battalion, German heavy Panzer-Abteilung equipped with Tiger I and later Tiger II Königstiger tanks