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During the Battle of Berlin, from 16 April to 2 May 1945, a Tiger II from the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion, bearing the turret number 314, was the last Tiger II to be destroyed in action. [1] At the time, Tiger 314 was commanded by SS- Unterscharfüher Georg Diers.
It was believed to have had turret number 123, but Colonel Michel Aubry, the founder of the museum, decided to put 233 on the turret in honour of the Tiger II that destroyed his Sherman tank at the end of the war. Unlike other captured German vehicles, this Tiger II was never used by the French Army. [citation needed] Other survivors include:
The turrets were mounted on the first Tiger II's, which were supposed to be armed with a KwK L/71 gun, like its Henschel counterpart. [ 2 ] After the VK 45.01 (P) failed to win the contract, Ferdinand Porsche began looking at ways to improve the design for a future version.
VK45.01 chassis fitted with a concrete turret mockup to simulate the weight of the Krupp turret for testing purposes. Only 100 chassis were built. VK 45.01 (P) (Porsche Tiger) 10 VK45.01 tanks with the Krupp turrets and 8.8 cm KwK 36 guns were produced. Only one completed Tiger (P) with chassis number 150013 saw combat service as a command tank.
The Tiger I tanks of the 506th had a unique 2-digit enumeration system: The battalion staff platoon tanks were numbered '01,' '02,' and '03,' and each company's 14 tigers were simply numbered 1-14. The HQ and separate companies could be identified by the color of the numbers: black for the HQ, white for the 1st company, red for the 2nd, and ...
B Tiger II. Notes: Tiger I (Panzer VI E/H, Sd.Kfz. 181) was armed with an 88 mm L/56 gun; Sturmtiger - assault tank based on Tiger I chassis. Armed with 380 mm rocket mortar converted from battle damaged tanks; Tiger II (Panzer VI B, Sd.Kfz. 182, also known as Königstiger) was armed with an 88 mm L/71 gun; Jagdtiger (Sd.Kfz. 186) - Based on ...
Number built—492 Even larger and heavier than the Tiger I, the Pzkpfw VIB Tiger II. It is also known under the informal name Königstiger [ 22 ] (the German name for the " Bengal tiger "), often semi-literally translated as the 'King Tiger' or 'Royal Tiger' by Allied soldiers. [ 23 ]
The 502nd became the first unit to receive Tiger Is [1] when on 19 and 20 August 1942 four Tiger Is were sent to the unit, which only partially equipped one company (later German regulations called for a heavy tank battalion of three companies, with 45 tanks in total). [2] On 29 August 1942 the 502nd arrived at the Leningrad Front.