I just finished Otto Carius's book "Tigers in the Mud". I had no idea the importance of the German repair crews and their omnipresence all along the front lines. Rarely was a Tiger abandoned.
Russians: see one tiger standing in the way of their 50 t34s *laughs in Russian* German Tiger: sees 50 fresh targets heading his way *laughs in German*
I think that the Americans encountered Tigers less than a dozen times on the entire Western front. About half the time, the Tiger broken down before it reached the American lines. Most of the rest were in the Ardennes, and the US didn't have many tanks to block them. Instead, the Tigers overran the front line and then tried to trudge up narrow roads with US AT guns on either side. They didn't fare so well. The StugIII was far more fearsome than the Tiger. It was cheaper and more effective at killing US tanks than the Tiger ever was.
The German sergeant had brains, guts, and bravery. That's a receipe for heroism, and he well deserved the heroic medals. My hat's off to the German sergeant.
The guy at 0:36, casually smoking his grandpa-pipe while wearing a stahlhelm and firing artillery in bare chest. What a gangster, the real OG's were in Kursk!!
From what I understand, to take THAT tank into that kind of environment and be that effective, much less survive, that commander must be one hell of a professional.
The sad part, what is often overlooked, on both sides good people died. People who in normal circumstances would have gotten along with the other. But for the political extremists.
What I love about the way this story is presented is; irrespective of whether or not he was on the opposing side; the soldiers on the ground still engaged in individual courage and heroism (at least from their perspective).
My great uncle was Heinrich Reimers who perished with Wittmann in Normandy. My grandfather from my mother's side (Heide) died - he drove a jeep for a commander in Berlin during the last days of the Russian invasion of Berlin.
the sad thing abaout the clash is that Wittman knew what it was but they had to make that attack to slow down the allies who was in a route to in circle over 30.000 german soldiers ........ he died with 3 other tigers but saved tousens of hes comrades ......... the last word they heard wittman said over radio : we dodnt expect all of us Tiger crews to survive this but i hope some of us do........ then they runned towards a entire tank division
Sadly, it's probably half myth - always a problem when basing history on medal citations and newspaper "media ops" stories. There's a slightly more balanced account at: forums.armchairgeneral.com/forum/historical-events-eras/world-war-ii/armor-in-world-war-ii/152989-tanks-in-combat (with 2 Tigers and T-70s mentioned) but this also fails to mention the supporting inf and AT weapons that Boys Own stories usually omit. I'll try to dig out the report.
My father was shot in Cherbourg shortly after D-Day but survived the war with two more oak leaf clusters for frag wounds. Most people, if they know anything at all about WW2, know about D-Day, Pearl Harbor and maybe the Battle of the Bulge. Your stories feature the reality of war which is smaller units fighting other smaller units in fights that don't make major headlines because of the large operations that they are part of getting all the attention. I appreciate your work in bringing the stories of these exceptional people to us. Regardless of which nation the soldier is from, they are putting their lives on the line for their nation. Bravery is bravery. The Greeks would have put their names on a stela in stone.
@@oldcity1954 All heavy tanks were during that time. Many American tanks broke down all over Europe so that the steel prices hit an all time low after the war. Now the engines don't work anymore, but the turrets are still used for bunker and river defenses.
so true my friend ...... it did exacly what it was produced for ....albert speer so it long way that german cant compete with sovjet in rersoursres so he came up with this doctrine we cant mass produce tanks like sovjet but we can make them better and stronger
What an outstanding warrior. I am glad he survived the war. This coming from a former American soldier. Long live the the great country of Germany Europe.
People keep lamenting the Tiger as crap, but every Tiger crewman I have read about loved it, taking over 60 hits and destroying that many enemy tanks proves its capability. In the end the T 34 is easier to produce and with tanks it is a numbers game, still the Tigers and Panthers are my fave tanks of the war.
The Tiger was going obsolete towards the end of the war. This is a natural given, nothing weird about that. Doesn't mean the tank was bad. Somewhat overengineered and costly, maybe. The Panther was an excellent successor though. And the Tiger II would have certainly beat the Pershing if it ever came to those two matching up in large scale battles.
@@wtfronsson How could it be obsolete? A skilled panzer crewman could do a lot of damage to enemies, most allied tanks could be quickly destroyed by german tanks such as the tiger
@@themightyranger6321 What I think he means by obsolete is that the Tiger became rarer, harder to maintain, harder to crew, and all in all virtually no logistics support. If I'm not mistaken, getting closer to the end of the war, most Tiger I's and II's are either abandoned or destroyed by own crew rather than destroyed by enemy fire.
At times luck has to do with it. Did not run into T-34-86, did not run into a tank killing crew and did not get hit in the track, did not run out of gas or broke down....
That's what happens when you don't equip your tank platoons with radios and don't train your commanders to take initiative but only expect them to blindly follow instructions. You get dozens of tanks going up over a hill into the same death trap to be defeated in detail, like a bad ninja movie, and nobody stops and tries anything different.
Why are you glad? He was with the SS. Even many regular, German "Wehrmacht" soldiers disliked the SS. SS units have been responsible for the most atrocious acts, done by German troops. I suggest you look up online the story about the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, for example. But I forgive you your ignorance.
The courage of soldiers should always be admired irrespective of which side they are fighting. Missing good old times when kings used to fight along with soldiers, no shit of modern politicians who sit in one room talking worthless.
Who wouldn't be thrilled to hear this !? Fascinating (and terrible) time-frame but a tale of superhuman courage like this ? Thank you ! 10/10 for your Excellent upload.
unfortunatly war thunder makes it out that even the oldest t-34's can beat a tiger, the company being russian it doesnt suprise me they would bend history
Oldest T-34 can knock out a Tiger? Let me tell you something, you only complain about russian bias becouse you don't play russian tanks. When you fight russian tanks it always seems like they have bias on their side but that is only becouse you didn't use them. When you do use them you find out how painful they are to use. Their performance is "meh" overall. Decent armor, decent gun and decent mobility. Most of the time you just complain becouse your tank is extremely compact and a single shot will most likely cripple it or straight up put it out of commision. You face foes you often can't beat and god help you if you get uptiered. The only place that has a right to be called full of bias is 5.7 becouse of the IS-2 but that's about it.
I've heard of a quite fantasic story of a Tiger II fighting it's way out of Berlin in 1945, ending up disabled by a german anti-tank mine in the end, but before that did some epic battling. Could you perhaps investigate and do a video on that story aswell?
Aha, saw now that you've covered it in general in a previous video. th-cam.com/video/zVM471V9Iyc/w-d-xo.html Although I think there's more to the story on a individual level that would be interesting.
It takes years of experience to know that when you are out of armour piercing shells you could still reach for the high explosive ones. Genius. Very brave lad.
Amazing story, love the history! Such beautiful machine’s true works of art. No nation has ever come close to having as ascetically pleasing tanks as the Tiger, King Tiger, and Panthers fielded by the Germans in the Second World War. All of their designs were quite attractive in all fairness. It’s such a shame that more of them were not preserved. Can’t wait to someday visit Bovington to see Tiger 131 in person .😍 Great video, thanks for the upload!
WOW what a story. Credit to YOU Mark Felton for the fantastic editing, story line, facts, figures WOW future generations will look at these You Tubes as an historical record. You deserve an EMMY
My grandfather was Richtschütze (Gunner) and later Kommandant himself. He served on a Panzer IV Ausführung D1 and F2, than Panzer V "Panther" and at last a Panzer VI II "Königstiger" (Tiger II) in the Ardennes. He always said that he deeply respected especially british (Tommies) and american (Amis) soldiers for their braveness. The early sherman models have been nothing but tin cans in his eyes, he compared fighting tanks in the normandy to a shooting gallery. (At least as long as there was no allied air support available) The "Acht-Achter" (88mm gun) punched a hole into everything on the battlefield. But still the allied soldiers faught like lions as he used to say, with great tactics and bravery. They very rarely surrendered ... what a brave breed of men our grandfathers have been ... unimaginable. And i'm quite happy that it is unimaginable today. The british are our brothers, we shall never fight again.
Gunner: Commander, there's 50 t-34 tanks going into our position Staudegger: don't worry, be happy According to my info Hitler already raised our salaries!
He is a definition of true hero Destroying two T34 with hand grandes proving that ‘ smoking is bed for health ‘ He also showed what a young man of 22 can do with a good tank against overwhelming enemy in desperate times to support his comrades
thinking fast after running out of AP shells he desided to use the left over HE shells... WOW what a brilliant move... /S well fast thinking he realized that HE shells are still more effective than telling the crew throwing stones against enemy tanks. brilliant just brilliant. btw i don´t mock the tank commander i mock the commentator.
Thanks alot for giving us such an amazing historical story about ww2 specially what is related to german weapons such as tiger tanks i really enjoyed it so much
My grandfather was in the 3rd Armored Devison and was in the Battle Of The Bulge. I remember him telling me about the Tiger Tanks and how tuff it was to take them out (and not in the first date kind of way lol) He was the commander of a M4 Shurman with the 105 mm gun.
At around two minutes into your excellent video you mentioned the German pulling out pin on grenade, which is possible, but German stick grenades are activated by unscrewing cap at the bottom and then yanking on the exposed string, which was part of a friction ignition fuse
Yeah, but try saying THAT five times fast! More people would be confused by your description than by his 'pulling the pin' generalization - but everybody understood that he was saying that the grenade was live. When he said 'pulled the pin' I was visualizing the actual 'potato masher' mechanism in action, as did many others I'm sure. It in no way detracted from my enjoyment of the video.
True, but strangely when talking British sticky bombs most people expect it explodes seconds after the pin is pulled. German magnetic mines do of course.
Tiger tank commander spots 50 t 34s “ Hans turn on ze radio and tune in to die music channel ”. Soviet tank commanders “ what’s that noise cyka ” ERIKA boom boom boom.
Dear Mark. Enjoy your videos very much. Little known war actions. I would like to point you out that Kursk IS not the biggest tank battle in WWII. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Beginning on June 23 between Dubno, Lutsk and Brody in far western Ukraine, six Soviet mechanized corps under Gen. Mikhail Kirponos launched a counter attack into the advancing 1st Panzer Group advancing toward Kiev.
The battle which developed and then concluded on June 30 was a confusing action that swallowed 4381 Soviet tanks out of a total force of 5,826 versus some 222 (attainable units) plus 186 irrevocable German tanks.
After 67 hits, he started to worry about possible damage.
:D
😂😂😂
Impressive armour. 67 and not even one pen
the gunner should also get some credit though...
My great grandfather destroyed over 50 T34s
He was the worst mechanic in the Red Army 😂
when the tiger has only 92 rounds so you send 93 t34's
Loader: "We ran out of AP shells what should we do?"
Staudegger [THINKING FAST]: "Load the other shells we got!"
Genius!
Emanuel Schwarz -
Notice how he simply rendered those tanks inoperable, not destroyed. HE cannot pierce armor nearly as well as AP.
the only problem is the gun of the tiger is different to the T 34
Well to be fair, HE shells aren't really designed to kill tanks. They're designed to blow up infantry.
-Commander! Theres 50 enemy tanks coming towards our lonely tank!
-Omg! They must be suicidal!
Tank driver: Sir, we are being surrounded!
Tank Commander: Good, now we can fire in every direction!
Legend tells that the Reich created a brand new medal for Staudegger: the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves and Titanium Balls.
"I'm not trapped in here with you, you're all trapped here with me.
"
"A case of mistaken identity and a few well placed hand grenades"
Story of my life.
When the enemy literally has more men then you have ammunition...
Can you re establish the empire
More tanks. Different strategy. As the old Russian proverb goes, "quantity has a quality of its own"
"The Tiger crew would often run out of shells before enemy ran out of tanks"
I just finished Otto Carius's book "Tigers in the Mud". I had no idea the importance of the German repair crews and their omnipresence all along the front lines. Rarely was a Tiger abandoned.
Russians: see one tiger standing in the way of their 50 t34s
*laughs in Russian*
German Tiger: sees 50 fresh targets heading his way
*laughs in German*
Time after time a single Tiger held off dozens of Soviet, British and American tanks. Amazing machine.
I think that the Americans encountered Tigers less than a dozen times on the entire Western front. About half the time, the Tiger broken down before it reached the American lines. Most of the rest were in the Ardennes, and the US didn't have many tanks to block them. Instead, the Tigers overran the front line and then tried to trudge up narrow roads with US AT guns on either side. They didn't fare so well.
The StugIII was far more fearsome than the Tiger. It was cheaper and more effective at killing US tanks than the Tiger ever was.
Can you imagine how damaged their hearing was sitting in a steel box having god knows how many 76mm APHE shells hammering off the side of it?
What..
mickeybill Missing teeth was another widespread problem of the panzer crews. From getting knocked around inside the tanks.
Like they say about being a tank crew: good thing is you're in a tank and bad thing is you're in a tank.
Except they are wearing headphones and throat-pad mics so that they have efficient internal intercom communications.
Pardon?
History is always written by the Victor. German battle combat victories were never told for nearly a century. Thanks for getting us such stories.
The German sergeant had brains, guts, and bravery. That's a receipe for heroism, and he well deserved the heroic medals. My hat's off to the German sergeant.
I'm British but recognise ingenuity and bravery when I see it. My respects go to this man.
Very happy to hear that he survived the war...
The guy at 0:36, casually smoking his grandpa-pipe while wearing a stahlhelm and firing artillery in bare chest.
What a gangster, the real OG's were in Kursk!!
My father fought in Tiger II on the Russian front:(507). Ran out of fuel. Captured when he was only 19. Now is 93.
Glad he survived the bolsheviks.
glad he didnt die in a gulag
Cool
very cool! My grandpa was in the Reichsarbeitsdienst, also in the Eastern Front
Salute
Crew member: Sergeant we're being overrun!!
Sergeant: Less talk, more shooting!
but no ..... lets make a movie about a fictional tank with fictional characters and make the tiger tank stupid
From what I understand, to take THAT tank into that kind of environment and be that effective, much less survive, that commander must be one hell of a professional.
-Sergeant, we're getting overrrun by T34s!!! What should we do?
-...Hold my beer!
there are no t34-85's in 1934 so yeah thats pretty accurate of how that would have gone XD just wish you had not beat me to it :/
1934? this was 1943.
@@kingblane how could a t34 penetrate the fking tiger at least give it it's 85
More like "Hold Mine Schnapps!
Hold my schnitzel
Guess this is when the Soviets decided the T-34 could use a bigger gun.
IS-2
that's what the T-34-85 was for
The sad part, what is often overlooked, on both sides good people died. People who in normal circumstances would have gotten along with the other. But for the political extremists.
Its amazing that he lived so long after the war. He must've been a goldmine of war stories for his friends and family.
The moment when 50 t34s come at you and your biggest worry is that your tracks get blown of ^^
Definitely one of my favorite bedtime tiger stories.
What I love about the way this story is presented is; irrespective of whether or not he was on the opposing side; the soldiers on the ground still engaged in individual courage and heroism (at least from their perspective).
Best part was how this decorated hero got to live a long life dying in 1995
My great uncle was Heinrich Reimers who perished with Wittmann in Normandy. My grandfather from my mother's side (Heide) died - he drove a jeep for a commander in Berlin during the last days of the Russian invasion of Berlin.
Great warriors did the ultimate sacrifice to save the world
do you have access to any diaries, or stories passed down. i have watched the wittman story on history channel. amazing tank ace
the sad thing abaout the clash is that Wittman knew what it was but they had to make that attack to slow down the allies who was in a route to in circle over 30.000 german soldiers ........ he died with 3 other tigers but saved tousens of hes comrades ......... the last word they heard wittman said over radio : we dodnt expect all of us Tiger crews to survive this but i hope some of us do........ then they runned towards a entire tank division
What a badass! So young too! Only a year older than myself. Boys quickly became men in those days.
What a fantastic find this channel has been, intelligent informative well made videos are a rare thing on TH-cam. Keep up the good work Mr Felton!
John White So true. Just glad the TH-cam algorithm was right with this one.
I certainly will!
I have an aversion to waffle!
Sadly, it's probably half myth - always a problem when basing history on medal citations and newspaper "media ops" stories. There's a slightly more balanced account at: forums.armchairgeneral.com/forum/historical-events-eras/world-war-ii/armor-in-world-war-ii/152989-tanks-in-combat
(with 2 Tigers and T-70s mentioned) but this also fails to mention the supporting inf and AT weapons that Boys Own stories usually omit. I'll try to dig out the report.
Military History Visualised and TIK are great too
T34s "were coming to destroy you!".
Tiger tank "Am i a joke to you"
Other way around, the T34s are the joke
„You are surrounded“
„All I am surrounded by is fear and dead men“
Now he is riding his Tiger on the other side with other brave soldiers. Rip fearless man!
And riding through Valhalla, never having to stop for fuel.
My father was shot in Cherbourg shortly after D-Day but survived the war with two more oak leaf clusters for frag wounds. Most people, if they know anything at all about WW2, know about D-Day, Pearl Harbor and maybe the Battle of the Bulge. Your stories feature the reality of war which is smaller units fighting other smaller units in fights that don't make major headlines because of the large operations that they are part of getting all the attention. I appreciate your work in bringing the stories of these exceptional people to us. Regardless of which nation the soldier is from, they are putting their lives on the line for their nation. Bravery is bravery. The Greeks would have put their names on a stela in stone.
Tiger: Has 17 AP rounds
Soviets: Launch 18 T-34s
^
*Tonks* \/
RossTheBoss 101 damn
Carius, Wittman, Knipsell and this man can destroy a tank battalion.
Geeze louise! As a former tanker, a tip of the hat to the sar' & his crew. Credit where credit is due.
Thank you Mark to bring this amazing story to us ❤️
Dozens of T-34s enter the battlefield...
Tank crews: Why am I hearing boss music???
Observer on radio: 50 Soviet tanks...oh mein gott!!
Staudegger: Hold my beerstein.
The kid had some balls. I guess we can all agree on that .
Tigers worked as intended, just couldn't produce and equip enough of them.
I concur. There was another issue, they were prone to breakdowns.
Timothy Adams -
Good at fighting, horrible reliability.
And God help you if you break the transmission.
@@oldcity1954 All heavy tanks were during that time. Many American tanks broke down all over Europe so that the steel prices hit an all time low after the war. Now the engines don't work anymore, but the turrets are still used for bunker and river defenses.
so true my friend ...... it did exacly what it was produced for ....albert speer so it long way that german cant compete with sovjet in rersoursres so he came up with this doctrine we cant mass produce tanks like sovjet but we can make them better and stronger
Tiger Commander: "I don't want wasted ammo, only fire at overlapping targets so we can kill several per shell fired."
Damn. That tiger crew were a bunch of badasses. That’s hardcore
If this was War Thunder, the Tiger would've gotten zero kills before being one-shot. Because Russian balance.
muh russian bias
MUH REALISTIC
Muh stronk tonk
Angle your tank, dont be that idiot who thinks that tiger is a brawling tank and some situational awareness and you will succeed with Tiger 1
An 85mm aphe tends to do that. This video is probably about 76mm t-34s
What an outstanding warrior. I am glad he survived the war. This coming from a former American soldier. Long live the the great country of Germany Europe.
"1 tiger vs 50 T-34's" that's like comparing A heavy weight boxer against 50 yoga practitioners
"Sir! They just keep coming!"
"Good, we can keep shooting then"
Sergant Franz Staudaggar's unparalleled bravery impressed me very much.
Thanks for this informative
video.
People keep lamenting the Tiger as crap, but every Tiger crewman I have read about loved it, taking over 60 hits and destroying that many enemy tanks proves its capability. In the end the T 34 is easier to produce and with tanks it is a numbers game, still the Tigers and Panthers are my fave tanks of the war.
The Tiger was going obsolete towards the end of the war. This is a natural given, nothing weird about that. Doesn't mean the tank was bad. Somewhat overengineered and costly, maybe. The Panther was an excellent successor though. And the Tiger II would have certainly beat the Pershing if it ever came to those two matching up in large scale battles.
@@wtfronsson How could it be obsolete? A skilled panzer crewman could do a lot of damage to enemies, most allied tanks could be quickly destroyed by german tanks such as the tiger
@@themightyranger6321 What I think he means by obsolete is that the Tiger became rarer, harder to maintain, harder to crew, and all in all virtually no logistics support. If I'm not mistaken, getting closer to the end of the war, most Tiger I's and II's are either abandoned or destroyed by own crew rather than destroyed by enemy fire.
michael debolt mostly because it broke down a lot during the war and it was so complicated that crews couldn't fix it on the battlefield.
At times luck has to do with it. Did not run into T-34-86, did not run into a tank killing crew and did not get hit in the track, did not run out of gas or broke down....
Absolutely outstanding!! The man and the machine!
I reckon all of those were T-34/76, but still... that is the power of the Tiger.
Determination. Knowledge of his tank. And bravery.
That's what happens when you don't equip your tank platoons with radios and don't train your commanders to take initiative but only expect them to blindly follow instructions. You get dozens of tanks going up over a hill into the same death trap to be defeated in detail, like a bad ninja movie, and nobody stops and tries anything different.
Great story! I’m glad he survived the war.
Why are you glad? He was with the SS.
Even many regular, German "Wehrmacht" soldiers disliked the SS.
SS units have been responsible for the most atrocious acts, done by German troops. I suggest you look up online the story about the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, for example.
But I forgive you your ignorance.
A great soldier!
Just because he was in the SS doesn't mean he is bad
@@ibizenco not all SS soldiers are evil some fought for the German people
@@ibizenco I respect everyone who fought in the war, even the communists and the SS, despite the atrocities both committed
imagine the storys told by those veterans years later, seemed more like myths to younger people
That is 50 tanks of 30 tons so
50 times 30=1500
So 1500 tons of iron
With that amount of steel you can make a landkreuzer p.1000 ratte
The courage of soldiers should always be admired irrespective of which side they are fighting.
Missing good old times when kings used to fight along with soldiers, no shit of modern politicians who sit in one room talking worthless.
Legend has it, Staudegger stopped perusing T-34's , once he learn, that the Reich ran out of medals to award him !
Who wouldn't be thrilled to hear this !? Fascinating (and terrible) time-frame but a tale of superhuman courage like this ? Thank you ! 10/10 for your Excellent upload.
Many thanks for your kind remarks
So awesome. Can you talk about that tiger 1 tank that got hit over 300 times or something but managed to survive and drive back
unfortunatly war thunder makes it out that even the oldest t-34's can beat a tiger, the company being russian it doesnt suprise me they would bend history
Are you playing realistic? Dude in casual battles I can whip people with Italian tanks.
Yeah the difference is that irl the tiger crews had a brain
Um no? Yeah the T34 85 and IS1 can defeat the Tiger in war thunder but T-34 1941s and 1942s don’t stand a chance against the Tiger I
@death33859 actually that's false. The 76mm had a small chance of going through the side at that range, but definitely not the front
Oldest T-34 can knock out a Tiger?
Let me tell you something, you only complain about russian bias becouse you don't play russian tanks. When you fight russian tanks it always seems like they have bias on their side but that is only becouse you didn't use them.
When you do use them you find out how painful they are to use. Their performance is "meh" overall. Decent armor, decent gun and decent mobility. Most of the time you just complain becouse your tank is extremely compact and a single shot will most likely cripple it or straight up put it out of commision. You face foes you often can't beat and god help you if you get uptiered. The only place that has a right to be called full of bias is 5.7 becouse of the IS-2 but that's about it.
Just watched a vid of a Tiger vs a Sherman, the vid was 3s long.
Gee, if the Germans had TWO tiger tanks they would have conquered Asia 😂🤯
Naw just a king tiger tank wuld do
I've heard of a quite fantasic story of a Tiger II fighting it's way out of Berlin in 1945, ending up disabled by a german anti-tank mine in the end, but before that did some epic battling. Could you perhaps investigate and do a video on that story aswell?
Aha, saw now that you've covered it in general in a previous video. th-cam.com/video/zVM471V9Iyc/w-d-xo.html
Although I think there's more to the story on a individual level that would be interesting.
Think you are referring to Diers & Koerner who commanded 2 Tiger II.
Video exists, see "King Tiger Last Stand Berlin 1945"
The dismounted assault on two tanks was already a fantastic story on it's own!
They are the Panzer elite... born to compete... never retreat!
GOST DIVISION
Retreat they did Lost they did, n remember that cause its true, want some truth? not comic book stuff? THE LOST EVIDENCE THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
they retreated from Moscow to Berlin and to hell they fell with it , utterly destroyed by the mighty reds
@@mojoa.7117 burn
@Dod o lol
NEVER underestimate a tiger tank with German crew!
If there was a time machine, I would want to go film this.
That's an amazing story indeed!
You got that right!
It takes years of experience to know that when you are out of armour piercing shells you could still reach for the high explosive ones. Genius. Very brave lad.
Its amazing how you keep coming up with such detailed tidbits of action . I'm always fascinated by these stories. Great work .
Amazing story, love the history! Such beautiful machine’s true works of art. No nation has ever come close to having as ascetically pleasing tanks as the Tiger, King Tiger, and Panthers fielded by the Germans in the Second World War. All of their designs were quite attractive in all fairness. It’s such a shame that more of them were not preserved. Can’t wait to someday visit Bovington to see Tiger 131 in person .😍 Great video, thanks for the upload!
Fascinating stuff, thanks
T-34 crew says " I must fire"
Tiger crew says " why are BB's hitting off my Buick SUV?"
Loveee your videos
WOW what a story. Credit to YOU Mark Felton for the fantastic editing, story line, facts, figures WOW future generations will look at these You Tubes as an historical record. You deserve an EMMY
My grandfather was Richtschütze (Gunner) and later Kommandant himself. He served on a Panzer IV Ausführung D1 and F2, than Panzer V "Panther" and at last a Panzer VI II "Königstiger" (Tiger II) in the Ardennes. He always said that he deeply respected especially british (Tommies) and american (Amis) soldiers for their braveness. The early sherman models have been nothing but tin cans in his eyes, he compared fighting tanks in the normandy to a shooting gallery. (At least as long as there was no allied air support available) The "Acht-Achter" (88mm gun) punched a hole into everything on the battlefield. But still the allied soldiers faught like lions as he used to say, with great tactics and bravery. They very rarely surrendered ... what a brave breed of men our grandfathers have been ... unimaginable. And i'm quite happy that it is unimaginable today. The british are our brothers, we shall never fight again.
Gunner: Commander, there's 50 t-34 tanks going into our position
Staudegger: don't worry, be happy
According to my info Hitler already raised our salaries!
"sir, we are sorrounded by dozens of T-34s!"...
Commander: nice! Now we can unload all of the rounds here...
50 T-34's: "Dude, you're outnumbered!"
Tiger: "Outnumbered? I have more shells then you have tanks! YOU are outnumbered!"
Tigers make me MOIST. ❤️👌🏼
22 soviet T 34’s destroyed by one German Tiger Tank! So much for the T 34’s being the best tanks of WW2!
One thing about German engineering is that when their equipment worked it was awesome but when it broke down , it took ten and a boy to fix it.
He is a definition of true hero
Destroying two T34 with hand grandes proving that ‘ smoking is bed for health ‘
He also showed what a young man of 22 can do with a good tank against overwhelming enemy in desperate times to support his comrades
Russian Tanks : *driving into Staudeggers direction*
Staudegger : *So you have Choosen death?*
thinking fast after running out of AP shells he desided to use the left over HE shells...
WOW what a brilliant move... /S well fast thinking he realized that HE shells are still more effective than telling the crew throwing stones against enemy tanks.
brilliant just brilliant. btw i don´t mock the tank commander i mock the commentator.
Ok Mr. Felton, I surrender and subscribe, you are just too good at this. Well played sir.
Thanks alot for giving us such an amazing historical story about ww2 specially what is related to german weapons such as tiger tanks i really enjoyed it so much
My grandfather was in the 3rd Armored Devison and was in the Battle Of The Bulge. I remember him telling me about the Tiger Tanks and how tuff it was to take them out (and not in the first date kind of way lol) He was the commander of a M4 Shurman with the 105 mm gun.
At around two minutes into your excellent video you mentioned the German pulling out pin on grenade, which is possible, but German stick grenades are activated by unscrewing cap at the bottom and then yanking on the exposed string, which was part of a friction ignition fuse
Yeah, but try saying THAT five times fast! More people would be confused by your description than by his 'pulling the pin' generalization - but everybody understood that he was saying that the grenade was live. When he said 'pulled the pin' I was visualizing the actual 'potato masher' mechanism in action, as did many others I'm sure. It in no way detracted from my enjoyment of the video.
True, but strangely when talking British sticky bombs most people expect it explodes seconds after the pin is pulled. German magnetic mines do of course.
Small error
Tiger tank commander spots 50 t 34s “ Hans turn on ze radio and tune in to die music channel ”. Soviet tank commanders “ what’s that noise cyka ” ERIKA boom boom boom.
Thanks for your historic commentary and video!
Dear Mark. Enjoy your videos very much. Little known war actions. I would like to point you out that Kursk IS not the biggest tank battle in WWII. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Beginning on June 23 between Dubno, Lutsk and Brody in far western Ukraine, six Soviet mechanized corps under Gen. Mikhail Kirponos launched a counter attack into the advancing 1st Panzer Group advancing toward Kiev.
The battle which developed and then concluded on June 30 was a confusing action that swallowed 4381 Soviet tanks out of a total force of 5,826 versus some 222 (attainable units) plus 186 irrevocable German tanks.