ORIGINAL: Jagdtiger
Ummmmm, yea they used White paint (wouldnt you want white paint if you were in a snowy environment?) here's the pic: the caption to the left says " A Kingtiger with Henshel turret.
502nd Heavy Panzer Division, Ardenned, winter 1944-1945
Nice tank, we like it. Looks like it had a really bad combat day.
Your interpretation of WWIi
SchwerePanzerabteilung historyis
suspect and
perhaps your reference book is not so accurate: 16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945 are the stated dates for the Battle of the Bulge – Ardennes Offensive.
1. Reference Unit History; Schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 102 (later designated SS 502):http://www.ss-panzer.de/Geschichte/geschichte.html
<span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title="">• The Wehrmacht reports on Oct 8, 1944 that SS</span><span style="" title="">502</span><span style="" title="">is destroyed on the invasion front (Soviet Union) and 227 tanks and 28 Pak are lost.
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• The Wehrmacht reports that
Schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 102 (later designated SS 502)on March 6, 1945 took d</span><span title="">elivery of 31 Tiger II, their first KT tanks.
• By wars end SS 502 was destroyed on the Eastern Front.
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2. Reference Unit History;(Wehrmacht) Schwere Panzerabteilung 502 (later designatedSchwerePanzerabteilung511 on Jan 5, 1945):Tigers in Combat, By W. Schneider. On December 17, 1944 this unit was training on King Tigers at Camp Senne.
• Both sides, including the US Army Historians, USAOfficers and enlisted tankers and modern German Historians, Modern German Panzer Officers, Panzer officers from WWII, panzer crewmen of the era havedocumented the Battle of the Bulge in great detail over the last 65 years and
virtually every KT tank that got to that fight or tried to get to that fight is accounted for.
• And your KT could be the exception, but it would be a very long historical shot indeed.
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