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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:
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.
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.
VK4502(P) (experimental designation for the Porsche development vehicle Porsch Typ 180 (front turret) and Porsche Typ 181 (central turret) for the Tiger II) VK4503 (experimental designation for the Henschel development vehicle for the Tiger II) VK6501(H) (experimental designation for the Henschel proposal for the Panzer VII)
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 ...
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 ...
Two prototypes were produced: One was a version fitted with the eight-roadwheel Porsche suspension system (serial number 305001) and another version was equipped with the Henschel nine-overlapping roadwheel suspension system (serial number 305002), [5] as used on the main-production Tiger IIs constructed by Henschel. They were completed in ...