DER TIGER VOLUME 1 SCHWERE PANZERABTEILUNG 501
Written by Volker Ruff
Published by Volker Ruff
in 2018
ISBN: 9783981690804
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- WORLD WAR II
DER TIGER VOLUME 1 SCHWERE PANZERABTEILUNG 501
Written by Volker Ruff.
Stock no. 1826153
1st.
2018.
Hardback.
Large format.
Nearly fine condition.
A Pictorial Documentation of the German Heavy Tank Battalions 1942-45. Schwere Panzerabteilung 501 fought on the battlefields of Tunisia (North Africa), Russia, Poland and the Reich. Dual language: English & German. Large oblong format. B/w pictorial glazed boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 9783981690804. A lovely copy.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgement
- Formation and Training
- Railway station Fallingbostel, October 1942
- The first crews take over >>their<< Tigers
- North Africa - Tunisian bridgehead
- Transport to Tunisia - North Africa Sea Transport lighters
- First operations in the Tunis region Near El Bathan
- Arrival of 2./501 Transfer to Manouba, near Tunis
- Operation >>Eilbote<<
- Surrounding Djebel Mansour und Solbia
- Mine damage
- Breakthrough southwest of Lake Kebir
- Near Ksar Lemsa castle
- Advance toward the Qussellia and Kairouan
- Operation Fruhlingswind
- Tiger No.01 and 02 - staff company s.Pz.Abt.501
- Engine change
- Operation >>Ochsenkopf<<
- Beja Grave
- Retreat from Beja
- 7th.Kp. at El Jem
- Reestablishment of s.Pz.Abt.501
- Arrival at H.Gr. Mitte
- Preparations January 1944 at Volosovo
- Winter quarters, March 1944
- Engine change without a crane tgruck
- The Framework
- Auxiliary stand and frame in detail
- Operation >>Hubertus<<
- Loewe-bridge
- Fights on the roadway
- Between Vitebsk and Orscha
- Support vehicles of s.Pz.Abt.501
- May 1944 near Orscha
- Revitalisation and re-equipment with Tiger II
- Baranow bridgehead