File:Tiger II ‘502 red’ – Patriot Museum, Kubinka (26518906099).jpg
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German WW2 Heavy Tank (Command variant) Offical designation:- Sd Kfz 267 Panzerbefehlswagen Tiger Ausf B. This was the command tank variant of the formidable Tiger II. Captured after the valiant action described below, it was taken to Kubinka for testing and has remained there since. Recently repainted into accurate colour scheme and markings, it is now on display in Hall 11 of the Patriot Museum Complex. Park Patriot, Kubinka, Moscow Oblast, Russia. 25th August 2017 The following history of this vehicle is from the excellent www.preservedtanks.com website:- This is an example of the Panzerbefehlswagen Tiger Ausf B. It was captured in August 1944 near Sandomierz in Poland. It is a SdKfz 267 but it appears to have its mast star aerial fitted in the standard rod aerial position at the back of the turret, and it is fitted with a Russian headlamp in the centre of the glacis plate. It has Russian text painted on the side, part of which translates as “captured 13-8-1944”. It was one of three knocked out by Jr. Lt. Aleksander Oskin commanding a T-34/85 on 12 August 1944, the first time these vehicles had been encountered by the Red Army (source: R. Fleming). He was part of the 53rd Guards Tank Brigade and in the evening of 11 August was ordered to conduct a scouting patrol to the small village of Ogledow. Finding German troops in the village, he stopped and observed them, having camouflaged his tank in a corn field. Before sunset a German tank column entered the village and shot it up, and then halted for the night. Early the next morning the tank unit, part of sPzAbt 501, the first unit in the East to receive the Tiger II, left the village and moved along the road towards Oskin’s tank. His crew did not recognise the vehicles but he had heard of a new German heavy tank and waited until the last minute to open fire. He let the three tanks approach to about 200m before firing at them from the side. After firing a number of rounds in a short space of time he destroyed the first two, both of which later exploded. He then followed the retreating third tank and stopped it with a round through the rear armour. He took some prisoners, and was later awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union (GSS) award for his success. This tank, number “502”, was probably the third tank; it was recovered soon after and sent back to Moscow for examination.” |
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| Author | Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK |
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