Ferdinand or Elephant?

[yantaylor]

Hi everyone.
I wanted to share with you a debate that me and a few of my friends had a while back and that was concerning the Elephant tank destroyer.

Now am I right in saying that when they were first used at Kursk, they were called Ferdinand and later after they withdrew the remainder and up-graded them by adding a machine gun and a cupola, they re-named them Elephants?

Has anyone heard this story before?

Regards
Yan.

[kstdk]

Hello

Please see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elefant

Regards
Kurt
kstdk

[tigre]

Hello to all ; and also here in this very forum.................

viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3529&p=2045955&hil ... t#p2045955

Cheers. Raúl M .

[yantaylor]

Thank you guys, now I can tell my friends that I was right.

Yan.

[Christian Ankerstjerne]

The two articles are wrong. The re-naming of the Ferdinand to Elefant was not related to the modifications.

[hoot72]

The two articles are wrong. The re-naming of the Ferdinand to Elefant was not related to the modifications.

Yes, Christian is correct. The crews lobbyed for the name change and Hitler approved the name change. More to do with the fact it was heavy, slow and cumbersome and almost impossible to pull off the battlefield with the use of a single recovery vehicle.