I feel compelled to write about an error I see reported over and over again in my search for information about pz.abt 501.

The captured Tiger tank in Tunisia, number 712 is not the former 112. Despite obvious evidence that it is a 2nd Kompanie tank it's reported over and over as a the 112 and even today wears this mistaken turret number.

How do I know it's not 112? Here, take a look at the first two photos. Notice the gouge from a hit on the front plate above where the tow shackle mounts? A very unique identifier!

Because of the numbering system used when the 501st was absorbed into the 10th Panzer Division the 112 became the 724. Some say 112s serial number is 250012, that maybe so but it doesn't preclude a hull number. The 250011 was the 231 of the 2nd Kompanie completed to a later fitment then the 1st Kompanie tanks!