A "Tiger" mystery solved
A "Tiger" mystery solved
I purchased an excellent video "Junkers JU 87, The Notorious Stuka" (Castle Vision) some 5 years ago. The video features a brief glimpse
of a ferocious panzer attack on the eastern front by a couple of tanks which bore a striking resemblance to Tiger I. There was something odd about the dimensions though. Certainly they were not the T34/85 Tiger conversions from Kelly´s Heroes or Saving Private Ryan.
Now I at last found out that the tanks were a couple of the comparatively rare T44s masked as Tigers for the Soviet film industry.
Find out more from
http://www.battlefield.ru/t44.html
of a ferocious panzer attack on the eastern front by a couple of tanks which bore a striking resemblance to Tiger I. There was something odd about the dimensions though. Certainly they were not the T34/85 Tiger conversions from Kelly´s Heroes or Saving Private Ryan.
Now I at last found out that the tanks were a couple of the comparatively rare T44s masked as Tigers for the Soviet film industry.
Find out more from
http://www.battlefield.ru/t44.html
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Film about Kursk
Soviet film industry made a film about Kursk...it mayt well have been from this film...occasionally clips of them moving slowly under fire is seen on various post war documentry shows.
Private Ryan ?
The Soviet tanks not perhaps as well finished as those used in S.P.R. was it S.P.R. you meant ?
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