In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. On August 25th, the liberation of Rouen is near (it will intervene on the 30th). by eric21 Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:44 pm, Post the battle. There is a bigger problem. The tank was absolutely new, it ran only 400km. Mr. Sotiropoulos is credited with several WW2 Wrecks he located in the Ionian Islands, Greece. story is from a conversation Bruno Renoult, the historian who found the The Heikendorf Panther - The German Tank Found in a Basement Mark Felton Productions 1.79M subscribers Subscribe 33K 2.1M views 3 years ago In 2015 at the small town of Heikendorf, near Kiel,. Bad photo of the Fontenay-Saint-Pere King Tiger Tank 124 turret. But the tank renovators do not play favourites. One example, a KV-1, was lifted up in November 2015 near Senno, in the Vitebsk region of Belarus. The stories of old men led to a target west of Ithaki island. The Tiger I is arguably the most famous tank of the Second World War. At least 15 times a year the complex, having built up a collection of working machines from the Second World War, shows battles re-enactments. 124 has finally been decided by the French Government and it is coming to Normandy. This time, the two ships would be on their own, apart from Italian reconnaissance aircraft that would fly over them. in time to participate in the battle of the Falaise Pocket. But in France the roads are the property of "Conseil General". Sounds like the panther tank, tiger tanks were rare and only ever made as a breakthrough tank. Well be revisiting our most popular features from the last three years in our Lockdown Longreads. Mark Felton Productions does not condone written attacks, insults, racism, sexism, extremism, violence or otherwise questionable comments or material in the 'Comments' section, and reserves the right to delete any comment violating this rule or to block any poster from the channel.Photos licensed under Wikimedia Creative Commons: Hugh Llewelyn; Herbert Frank; Thumbnail: Julius Jaaskelainen Tanks are roaring and shooting, though thankfully all the ammunition is blank. A group of enthusiasts of the second world war is active to clarify a mystery: is there a German tank at the bottom of the Seine, near the Jeanne dArc Bridge? The Vimoutiers Tiger 1 Tank project is the responsibility of the Mayor of Vimoutiers and the French Ministry of Culture.The Tiger 2 tank project is the responsibility of the Mayor of Fontenay-Saint-Pere and the French Conseil General. It seems that Marburg ended up at a depth of 300 meters, broken into two pieces. Youll find everything from the story about the worlds greatest space mission to the truth about whether our cats really love us, the epic hunt to bring illegal fishermen to justice and the small team which brings long-buried World War Two tanks back to life. Earlier we restored mainly Soviet machines but as the re-enactments started, German tanks became necessary. The Yakushevs use a rotation scheme. The history of this vehicle is well known. <p>Engineering definition, the art or science of making practical application of the knowledge of pure sciences, as physics or chemistry, as in the construction of engines, bridges, buildings, mines, ships, and chemical plants. The family has a small flat with a kitchen and a big common room with beds while they are based in the workshops. The tank was abandoned by its crew in August 1944 during the latter stages of the Battle of Normandy. This was almost 20 years ago. Remains found in the Eure. There was the time when we slept in vans, says Vladimir, who has been commuting from Stalin line to his home village for nine years. We even ate the German chocolate from this tank, says Mikalutski. The Marburg appears to have been abandoned to her fate. The turret was first lifted off to reduce the overall weight and the chassis was then pulled and pushed out of the roadside ditch by bulldozers. When it is very deep they put on chemical protection suits. The whole project was therefore re-investigated by the Regional Governors office which has spent almost 6 months re-looking into the affair from a legal perspective. What struck me was that the ship was big, up to 8,000 tons, painted with a camo scheme and had four masts, a quite unique feature at the time.What I did not consider, though, was the possibility that the ship belonged to the Axis powers and was not Allied.When I read the details of the sinking of Marburg and Kybfels, betweenthe islands of Kefalonia and Lefkada, I immediately noticed that Marburg had four masts.I started searching the region and finally the northern coast of Ithaki island coincided exactly with that of the photo! The ship was burning fiercely for hours and, in the evening, the burning ship was visible from Lefkada Island. Kybfels was a cargo ship of 7,764 tons owned by HANSA Bremen. He said that this and other King Tiger Tank parts were found in 2001 near Mantes-la-Jolie, France, This Tiger 2 tank, from the 101 SS.s.Abteilung, was lost in a crater near Fontenay-Saint-Pere on 26 August 1944. Willy Feys Tiger would then have done a wrong maneuver: instead of gently approaching the barge, slightly elevated, in order to climb on it, the tank would have hit it.The barge would have, then retreated, leaving the Tiger, on his momentum, dive into the Seine , says Brigitte Corbin, of the Atlantic Wall Museum, according to the testimony of the tank commander, who escaped unscathed. Regional Chairman Pierre Bedier and his council unanimously confirmed this decision in June 2017 at a public meeting and the matter became legal 2 months later. In 2015 at the small town of Heikendorf, near Kiel, Germany, a perfectly preserved Panther tank was found in someone's basement. The tank's crew abandoned the tank and set off two explosive charges on the vehicle, which left the tank's turret immobilized and damaged the engine decking, leaving distinct cracking on the thick armoured plates. The 1943 Nazi tank was discovered in the basement of a house in the suburbs of Kiel (Carsten Rehder/DPA) Police searching in a villa in a wealthy German suburb have found a Second World War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XIkZgCJZCs, https://fs19communitytrader.freeforums.net/. was Tiger II tank number 124 commanded by SS-Oberscharfuhrer Fritz Zahner of the German Heavy Tank Battalion Schw.Pz.Abt 503. Twitter. One tank, Vladimir says, was found with its entire crew still inside it. This resulted in the Tiger II 'Royal Tiger' or as the British called them, 'King Tiger' tank. "Orne. It is a great shame this was done.. You used to come, change clothes and hide inside your house on wheels, says Vladimir. The Army Bomb Disposal Department headed by Commander Berthelin had already been given the authorisation to clear the site by the office of the Prefet and it will be their experts that will deal with anything dangerous. What you wont find is any reference to, well, you-know-what. The investigation by Gerasimos Sotiropoulos focused on eyewitness accounts from people who might have known the exact location where the burning ship sank. Heavier protective armour required even larger tank hulls to carry the weight and mount the bigger guns. To this day, King Tiger No. Almost 20 soldiers struggled to remove the tank from a villa on Thursday in a wealthy suburb of Kiel in northern Germany, after police searching the property discovered the tank, a torpedo, an. A local group had been campaigning against the tank being dug up and at first they wanted it to stay in the ground and then later they wanted it to become a monument at the roadside. How the royals almost faced another family exodus: Zara and Mike Tindall. Nazi Germany's Tiger is arguably the most famous tank of World War II. This did not make the renovators rich. It will then be time for Calvados researchers to take an interest in the fate of other tanks, which also fell in the Seine on the side of Duclair. Not all of them . The Panther wasn't the problem just the circumstances around it. France and Russia both have two, a working Tiger I is at the Tank Museum in Bovington in the UK and one each can be found in the USA and Germany. It seems that the Germans were sure that they would conquer the USSR and were already making plans for after the conflict. Not all tanks are built the same. I do FS19 old school mods and FS19 military mods for PC let me know if you want anything done, A panther tank and a torpedo was found in 2015 in Germany who was owned by a collecter. The King Tiger's 8.45m (27ft 9in) (gun facing forward), This page was last edited on 13 October 2022, at 15:40. The Panzer crew returned to their unit minus the tank and took on roles in other vehicles. Is that the dunkelgelb of 43 tanks or the earlier yellow of the African Theatre? Military Photos. It is towards Rouen that the eyes of these enthusiasts turn, since a veteran of the German army, the lieutenant Willy Fey, since deceased, told them the accident happened of his tank of the Tigre type, on August 25th 1944, 300 meters downstream from the Jeanne dArc Bridge. The truth may be more amazing than the legend! North Africa was a major battleground for the Axis and Allies during the early years of World War II. However, recovering such finds is time-consuming and the license for searching and recovering military equipment is only issued personally by the countrys president, Alexander Lukashenko. One story says that one of the American bombs caused an enormous crater in the road. Try stealing a Tiger tank. :D, the tiger sound in the video is still louder than 9.4 capgun sound, What a weird place for an AMR-35 to find itself in. Aberdeen Tiger. This photograph appeared in the French press and on the internet last week click here and it shows the turret has been painted a yellow colour with some the original Zimmerit having been damaged. Six German Tiger I tanks survived World War II and are currently on display in museums or parks. . You reach the place and then you have to crawl back. The Italian gunboat Pellegrino Matteucci followed, while accompanying an Italian convoy. A misfortune, after all, anecdotal, except that it leaves a question unanswered: what has become of this tank, which nobody has ever fished out? They work and live on the museums territory for nine days and then take a 270km (168 miles) trip home to their native village and stay there for five days. The KV-1 was feared by the Germans because its armour was too thick for their standard shells. They have found shattered metal pieces? Your email address will not be published. For instance, its widely believed that the first Tigers were painted gray, but this Tiger has remnants of dark yellow paint on its fragments. This is well know but not to the relic hunters who despoil war graves and endanger themselves and others with random digging Working models live in the repair hangar. During its recovery, eight unexploded shells were taken from it. by Patton_M47 Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:31 pm, Post The tank is located beside the road heading towards Gac on Route Dpartemental D979. the town of Mantes la jolie centred around the village of Fontenay-St-Pre. The destroyed remains of Iraqi T-54, T-55, Type 59 or Type 69 Main Battle Tanks, and two armoured recovery vehicles (a Chinese-made Type 653 and a Polish-made WZT-2) in a former Iraqi military complex Bruce Grubb, 24, called in armed officers, who held an hour-long standoff with the cat, trying to figure out the best way to approach it. Frontal view of the Tiger tank. Its gonna take a loooong time to pick whole tank back :D If at all. Man, its amazing they managed to find even bits & pieces of a tank that was blown up in the early 1940s. Your email address will not be published. People should note though that even hard and fast paint colour regulations werent adhered to. Vladimir Yakushev recollects a unique discovery when they recovered a German Panzer III medium tank which fell into swamps in Vitebsk region. For the sake of their own safety, the tank hunters never go into the marshes alone. Very interesting indeed. This German WW2 King Tiger tank is currently in two parts. You take the idle sprocket front jockey wheel from a T-34 launched in 1942 to put it on the model launched in 1941. Below is an update of what the collection has been up and you can follow the Wheatcroft Collection on Facebook We have recently discovered this immaculate, as new Maybach HL 230 in a French barn along with many HL 230 parts. The first Tigers were grey and then it was down to units to repaint them if they chose. The recovery project already has the written agreement of the German Ambassador to France, the German Army and the French MoD and it is being financed from a number of sources including a US D-day Veteran and a US Veterans Association. The tank will never leave France and that was an assurance that we gave to the French authorities 4 years ago the tank is part of French history and it will stay in Normandy he added but it is very annoying that the turret has now been vandalised. The crew was leaving it in a hurry, all things were left in their places. A pair of binoculars, socks, textbooks on agronomy (plant sciences) and accounting were all found in the upended tank. In August 1941 the crew of the Soviet tank commander Kolobanov in a KV-1 knocked out 22 German tanks within 30 minutes after setting an ambush near the city of Leningrad. The tank was featured prominently in the May 1975 issue (Issue 8) of After the Battle Magazine. by Patton_M47 Sat Nov 21, 2020 4:59 pm, Post Therefore, the Tiger found in the bog is one out of six German tanks that came under fire while moving along the road Mga-Sinyavino. As of 2013, the mayor of Vimoutiers began seeking funds for a restoration project. Bruno Renoult, a local historian, discovered and recovered parts of the turret, including the roof and parts of the turrets left side. The state military and industrial committee donated a self-propelled gun with similar parts, and the Belarussian Railways presented a traction engine converted from a self-propelled gun. The only working Tiger 1 tank in the world, Tiger 131, drives around the tank course at the Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset, as the attraction hosts. I thought the T34 was the most produced tank in history. They are concerned in case they explode and cause injury to local people or a passing motorist and the risk is one they were not willing to let continue any longer. Because of the distinct lack of colour photos and footage during WWII it is particularly difficult to divine actual colours and tones. Kappa. The exact location of this minefield, in a busy route the Axis shipping used frequently cannot be attributed just to luck. On the Vimoutiers tourist website it is indicated that following restoration the tank may be moved to a more central location in the town in the hope it draws more visitors to the local shops.[7]. Now Vladimir works as the chief mechanic and renovator in a historic and cultural complex called the Stalin Line near the countrys capital, Minsk. The performance in the open air shows an episode from the life of a Belarusian village during World War Two. I was growing potatoes, cucumbers, and selling them to make money for living, says Vladimir. [Experience in WWII tended to show that ammunition in the turret was a likely cause of ammunitio. The developers of the computer game World of Tanks have even visited to record the sounds of different tanks. The photo of the burning ship may have been shot in the afternoon of the 21st, or on the day after. A journey of 60 miles could use 150 gallons of fuel. Research has The damage done to the turret by this new paint is immeasurable and it has literally changed the history of the vehicle. You know theres a good story when it opens with that. Trip. See how well thats going to work. With eight examples in total, this is the most common marque to be found in Hron's eclectic stable. Stronk Soviet vehicle would have started. It first enter active service on the Russian front May 1944. From February to September 1944, heavy battles were fought in the narrow, 50 km-wide, Narva front in the northeastern part of Estonia. 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