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piney · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject: Your problem is obvious

Love to know what flipped this sucker over Rolling Eyes

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gregv · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 19, 2006 Posts: 18

If that's a railroad line in the background that could be a clue; maybe it was knocked off a train during transport, or flipped during some sort of unloading accident? It looks too intact to have been blown over by explosion.

On page 16 of "The King Tiger, Vol. II"by Wolfgang Schneider there are some shots of a King Tiger which has turned over during emergency unloading off of a train after it caught fire during a P-47 attack.

nice shot.

cheers

greg v.

George_Bradford · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: Your problem is obvious

Bulldozed into the ditch...

The fact that there is a fence in the foreground and an American soldier posing with this Tiger II, I seriously suspect that there is a road and a steep bank behind the tank. To clear the roads of enemy armour for logistics reasons mainly, and to help keep up the moral of troops passing through, heavy bulldozers would often push enemy vehicles off the road and onto their backs.

George Bradford
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mkenny · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jun 10, 2006 Posts: 3

Standing at the side of a French road in 1944. Tiger II '121' was either pushed or rolled when the verge collapsed. Recovered and shipped to Aberdeen. Later went to Munster.

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:02 am Post subject: Re: Your problem is obvious

An interesting thread to which Michael and others contributed elsewhere with nice pics on this vehicle with additional background:

www.network54.com/Foru...076584484/

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