Tiger II #314.

Zé VictorMarechal IV

Alguma dúvidas (avá rolleyes ) em relação a fotos que encontrei na net mas fiquei assim meio com o pé atrás e como por aqui tem colegas que sabem praticamente tudo a respeito... vamos lá.

Essa foto é real? Achei que a nitidez da marcação e do numeral destoa um pouco do resto da foto. Me parece também que ela não é originalmente colorida sendo colorizada posteriormente. É isso mesmo?

Essas abaixo são creditadas ao "314 já falecido". Estranhei por conta da diferença do cenário.

A superior direita e a imediatamente acima são sem dúvida o mesmo, mas a minha cisma está na relação da primeira com essas outras duas.

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3/17/2410:47 AM

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paulorsMembro Fundador Assinante 02/25

Divirta-se. E acho que vc vai gostar do texto do filme.

Some information about the start of the video: Those King Tigers (Königstiger) belonged to the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion (Schwere Panzerabteilung 503). It was a Wehrmacht (the regular German Armed Forces) unit, not SS. The panzer uniform consisted of black jacket and trousers and there were skulls on the collar patches. Nothing to do with the SS who had lightning bolts on their collar patch and skull on their cap. The parade took place in Sennelager Training Area in Germany on 25th September 1944. It was arranged only for the propaganda film group who arrived there on one weekend to film the King Tigers. This is their footage. The battalion had just received new tanks, which had new camouflage paintings and most of them didn't even have numbers yet. On the film you can see that they had narrow (transport) tracks, so that they could be transported by rail. The normal tracks, used in combat, were wider and were changed on after a rail transport. They didn't want to change the tracks just for the film group because of the great work. Two weeks later the battalion with their tanks were transported by rail to Budapest, Hungary. The officer commanding the parade in tank number 300 and on close-up is the temporary commander of the 3rd company, lieutenant Richard Freiherr (baron) von Rosen (1922-2015). He later said that they would rather have spent the Sunday resting than parading for the propaganda film group. He was a great, commendable officer and it was very rare on those days that a lieutenant was the commander of a Tiger company. He is the author of the book: "Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy". Great book. Later on, after the war, he rose to the rank of Generalmajor (major general) in the armed forces of West-Germany. A very brief moment in the parade (0:38) is the famous tank commander and shooter Feldwebel (staff sergeant) Kurt Knispel (1921-1945). He was wounded in his Tiger II and died two hours later on 28 April 1945, aged 23. That feels so needless because only a week later on May 7 1945, the German High Command, in the person of general Alfred Jodl, signed the unconditional surrender of all German forces. Kurt Knispel is notable for claiming 168 tanks destroyed, making him the most successful fighter in armored warfare.

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3/17/246:14 PM

paulorsMembro Fundador Assinante 02/25

No final do filme aparece outro Kingtiger famoso, o "222" nas Ardenas. Montei esse tanque em 2001 usando o kit antigo da Tamiya. Na época eu não tinha muitos recursos para fotografar. Aqui vão duas fotos que sobreviveram, tiradas no Salão de Modelismo dos Fuzileiros Navais, aqui no Rio, em 2002.

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3/17/246:32 PM

Zé VictorMarechal IV

"O uniforme Panzer consistia em jaqueta e calças pretas e havia caveiras nas gola. Nada a ver com os SS que tinham raios no colarinho e caveiras no boné.!

Taí mais uma informação que eu não sabia. Anotado. dedão