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Amateur, I would ask what it is like to have one foot in the grave already!

It isn't in the grave; it was incinerated. If I had been richer, I'd have had it stuffed to put on the mantlepiece.

Not incinerated, cremated...

You cremate people, puss filled rotten feet are incinerated.

And bear claws?

The nurses probably took them as souvenirs.

RMD wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:27 pm I forgot to add that the unit lost one Tiger II to a 2-inch mortar belonging to the DCLI at Le Plessis-Grimoult, during the battle for Mont Pincon in early August.

Any more info on that? What was it - smoke round straight down the driver's hatch, or an HE blowing a track off? Or something even more freakish? Surprised some mention of it hasn't appeared somewhere on a Lardy site.

I think I once saw a pic of a panther that had a 3"HE down the open hatch.

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:34 am

RMD wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:27 pm I forgot to add that the unit lost one Tiger II to a 2-inch mortar belonging to the DCLI at Le Plessis-Grimoult, during the battle for Mont Pincon in early August.

Any more info on that? What was it - smoke round straight down the driver's hatch, or an HE blowing a track off? Or something even more freakish? Surprised some mention of it hasn't appeared somewhere on a Lardy site.

It was bombing-up in the village square, next to an ammo truck. The mortar-bomb got the ammo truck and the explosion flashed over via the open reload hatch and ignited the tank's magazine. There's a famous photo of a couple of soldiers looking at the wreck, with its turret slightly askew (the turret was lifted off by the internal explosion and plonked back down).

A Tiger II was also knocked out in Oosterbeek (Arnhem) by a 3-inch mortar bomb or 75mm howitzer shell landing on the rear deck and rupturing a fuel line, thereby setting fire to the tank.

The Le Plessis-Grimoult King Tiger: