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Captured Tiger Tank Photo Op

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The U.S. bazooka and the German Panzerschreck are posed in front of a captured German Tiger tank. (Source: Army Ordnance, Volume 27, No. 145, July-August 1944.) Original caption: The German 88-mm. rocket launcher is shown with the American bazooka beside … Continue reading →

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Wittmann’s Command Tiger from Dragon

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Dragon Models is releasing a new 1/35th-scale kit in their ’39-’45 Series depicting Michael Wittmann’s Tiger: Item 6730 – Tiger 1 Early Production Pz.Kpfw.VI, Ausf. E Wittmann’s Command Tiger. Dragon’s brand new is designed to represent Wittmann’s famous “S04” Tiger on the Eastern … Continue reading →

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Dragon Tiger I Ausf. H2

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Dragon Models has announced a new 1/35th-scale kit in their ’39-’45 Series depicting an unusual Henschel prototype panzer, No. 6683: Tiger I Ausf. H2 7.5cm KwK 42.  

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Dragon Panzerkampfwagen VI(P)

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

New in Dragon Models 1/35th-scale ’39-’45 Series: No. 6797: Sd.Kfz. 181 Panzerkampfwagen VI(P) w/ Zimmerit. The model kit depicts the Porsche design for the German heavy tank which would become the Tiger. Five Tiger(P) prototypes were produced, and one saw combat with sPzAbt. 653 … Continue reading →

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Dragon Tiger I Mid-Production with Zimmerit

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

New 1/35th-scale kit announced by Dragon Models: 1/35 Sd.Kfz 181 Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. E Tiger I Mid-Production w/ Zimmerit (No. 6700).  

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Trying to Capture an Intact Tiger in Tunisia

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Brief note on British attempts to capture an intact German Tiger I tank in Tunisia from “The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in Action”, Military Review, Vol. 23. Presumably, this Tiger is #231 of sPzAbt. 501 which was initially captured by the British … Continue reading →

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Aberdeen Tiger Tank Moving to Fort Benning

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The old Aberdeen Museum Tiger I tank is finally being shipped from RAF Alconbury, England back to the United States to the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Museum at Fort Benning, Ga. At the Fort Benning museum, the German Tiger … Continue reading →

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Air Attack at Hunt’s Gap

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The following correspondent’s report from the UP (United Press) describes the fighting at Hunt’s Gap in Tunisia in February-March 1943. Compare this account of the battle to the German commander Oberst. Rudolf Lang’s account and British observer Howard Marshall’s account. … Continue reading →

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Cyberhobby Tiger I Mid Command Version

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Great buildup and detail photographs from Dragon’s website of the new Tiger I Mid Command Version Cyberhobby kit: 1:35 Sd.Kfz.181 Pz.Kpfw.VI Ausf.E Tiger I MID Command Version Winter 1943 Production.    

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Villers-Bocage after the Battle

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

This wartime film shows black-and-white video of Villers-Bocage after the town’s capture by British troops in August 1944. British engineers search for mines around the wreckage of Tigers and Panzer IVs lost by the Germans in Villers-Bocage. In June 1944, … Continue reading →

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