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Glen B

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RE: HL King Tiger Report, Glen B

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ORIGINAL: Stince

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ORIGINAL: Glen B

I even have a picture of the origingal 314 just before they loaded Abt. 503 on a train to Hungary.

Glen,
I think that "314" is not a Porsche Turret.
The Porsche is straight across the bottom and the Henschel has little grove at the bottom plus the back of the turret is notch up at the bottom (storage area?)

The mantlet looked rounded but the picture is a bit fuzzy and shadowed, but it looks like I was mistaken, now its back to square one on the research.

There was a 314 Porsche turret Tiger II in Hungary, it was one of two the 503rd had. Perhaps they got re-numbered? I have no idea.

There is documentation from several sources that two went east with Abt 503.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=ATaw...;q&f=false

</div> Source:http://www.network54.com/Forum/47207/th ... che+Turret The 3rd Company of sPzAbt. 503, after losing their Tiger Is in Normandy was sent to Mailly le Camp in France, east of Paris , to be refitted with the Tiger II. At Mailly le Camp they received 12 Porsche turreted Tiger IIs and 2 Henschel turreted Tiger IIs on 31 July and 2 August 1944. While at Mailly le Camp two of the Porsche turreted Tiger II experienced mechanical problems and were left behind at Mailly le Camp when the rest of the unit headed for action north of the Seine River and to the west of Paris in mid-August 1944. The two Porsche turreted Tiger IIs were shipped back to Germany from Mailly le Camp to Paderborn, Germany being shipped on 26 August 1944 and arriving on 3 September 1944. After 3./sPzAbt. 503 fought in the withdrawal through France to Belgium they were sent to Paderborn for refitting where the entire battalion was issued 45 Tiger IIs with the Henschel turret and the two Porsche turreted Tiger IIs that they had left behind in Mailly le Camp. From Paderborn they were sent to fight in Hungary. One Porsche turreted Tiger IIs was numbered 314 and carried the name<span class="posthilit" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 2px; background-color: rgb(243, 191, 204); color: rgb(188, 42, 77); ">Anneliese. It was lost in March 1945 fighting in the east in Hungary. The fate of the other Porsche turret Tiger II is unknown.

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