WW2 Wochenschau D-Day Villers-Bocage Tank battle 1944

Wochenschau coverage of the fighting in Normandy. Showing the wrecked allied tank column inside Villers-Bocage, the work of Michael Wittmann and his Tiger.

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• Wochenschau
• D-Day
• Normandy
• Battle
• Wittmann
• Tiger
• Sherman
• Tank
• battle

[bowhuntergeorge]

Wittman was no more a bad guy then any of our guys today in an Abrams. He was merely a soldier fighting for his country.

[bowhuntergeorge]

He was committed to a cause that he gave his life for but in the process took many others. If he was a Nazi so be it. He kicked ass and was still a soldier. I have nothing but contempt for the Nazis who brought down Germany with their murderous exploits and crimes. But I respect (grudgingly) Wittman for his battlefield prowess.

[gerauda]

i dont get why they show the destroyed tiger without mentioning wittman

[angelalovemarcus]

@ByMikel it was 222 Sowa tiger according to agte - I still trying to work out where it was abandoned.......

[dulle3000]

sorry- the german tigers had been late

[Silnius]

@ByMikel the tank at 112-115 is a Cromwell IV from A Sq. Wittmann never returned from VB on a Tiger, he came back in a Swimmwagon 166 type,from Panzer Lehr with over a dozen Panzer IV H from 5th and 6 th kompanies. no one knows for sure if he used 212 or 231, more goes on 212.Comets never existed until nov-dec 1944. panzer IV shows beside Tiger 112 at 1:12-1:13

[Silnius]

@sonicart77 it is, its Tiger 112 SS Unterscharfuhrer Cap that was hit by a Firefly in the rear., i believe it was Lockwoods from B Squadron. at 1:13-14 is SS Obersturmfuhrer Philipsens Tiger 111. it was hit by a Piat.

[DickerSandmann]

i think it's atiger but it could be a cromwell tank as well it#s hard to say

[Draious]

one if the tiger tanks IS Michael Wittmans tank. He shot all those british tanks alone, and then got the track shot off his tank and him and his crew had to abandon the tank. There're documentaries on YouTube about the encounter, and its very exciting :)

[ByMikel]

Do you refere to the firs tank (1:10 to 1:12) or the second one been discussed here (1:12 to 1:15)?

By the way, no one are really sure about which tank commanded Wittmann this day. Sure his own 205 was out of order due an engine failure, so probably he was in command of 212 or 231. Both tanks were rendered by sixpounders, 212 on the middle of the town and 231 just on the road ou of the village. If you have significant evidence of 212 being Wittmann's, you will make happy a lot of historicians!