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German Tanks of World War Two by George Forty
As a very young officer, newly commissioned in the summer of 1948, I remember vividly being taken to visit the battlefields in the Ardennes area and coming across what seemed to be an entire regiment of Sherman tanks which had been completely annihilated. There were Shermans lying in heaps everywhere one looked, turrets blown off, hulls ripped apart, most had clearly been brewed up - not for nothing was Sherman known as the 'Tommy Cooker'. They had been advancing with the grain of the country and had clearly been taken by surprise from a flank. The follow-up echelon had then turned right-handed towards their tormentor, but had found little cover along their new line of advance. The author of all this carnage was one single Jagdtiger, whose immense bulk still occupied a perfect fire position in a farmyard at the top of a commanding hill feature. The Jagdtiger itself had been burnt out either by air attack, or perhaps by its own crew when they ran out of ammunition. The memory of the scene has remained with me for nearly 40 years, a perfect example of a tank destroyer doing its deadly work.
Details: http://www.network54.com/Forum/47207/thread/993197337/Jagdtiger+in+the+Ardennes-
German Tanks of World War Two by George Forty
As a very young officer, newly commissioned in the summer of 1948, I remember vividly being taken to visit the battlefields in the Ardennes area and coming across what seemed to be an entire regiment of Sherman tanks which had been completely annihilated. There were Shermans lying in heaps everywhere one looked, turrets blown off, hulls ripped apart, most had clearly been brewed up - not for nothing was Sherman known as the 'Tommy Cooker'. They had been advancing with the grain of the country and had clearly been taken by surprise from a flank. The follow-up echelon had then turned right-handed towards their tormentor, but had found little cover along their new line of advance. The author of all this carnage was one single Jagdtiger, whose immense bulk still occupied a perfect fire position in a farmyard at the top of a commanding hill feature. The Jagdtiger itself had been burnt out either by air attack, or perhaps by its own crew when they ran out of ammunition. The memory of the scene has remained with me for nearly 40 years, a perfect example of a tank destroyer doing its deadly work.
Details: http://www.network54.com/Forum/47207/thread/993197337/Jagdtiger+in+the+Ardennes-
In summary, on 11 April 1945, from hill B233 in the Ruhr near Langschede, Ernst's Kampfgruppe (consisting of his own 1.Kp. now with only 4 JTs, 4 StuG IIIGs, 3 Pz.IVs and an AA halftrack platoon with 4 Sd.Kfz.7/2 37mm FlaKs), observed a large column of US Armour confidently heading into the open valley below at speed.
Waiting until the last vehicles were within range, all vehicles fired together picking their respective targets based on their relative gun ranges. They succeeded in KO'ing everything in sight with the JT's 128's hitting the last vehicles even out to 4+ kms. The US 8th.Div. losses were staggering at over 50 AFVs destroyed, incl. at least 11 Shermans.
P-47s were then called in to attack Ernst's hilltop position in 3 waves, but had 2 planes brought down in the first by the FlaK halftracks, and one hit by tank MG fire.
However one JT of Lt. Kubelka had received a direct hit on the engine deck killing the crew in the second pass.
Last edited by lockie on Tue Apr 04, 2017 12:27 am; edited 1 time in total
......what map should I use?
