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tiger v churchill.


griff66

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not a very fair fight, even though the churchill had more armour than a tiger it still didn't stand much chance unless it was up close and by then 3 or 4 churchills would have met their end just closing with the target.

the funny thing is though in villers bocage the tiger was at a disadvantage as the gun was too big to swing around in built up area's or woodland so i'm surprised the cromwells couldn't get round to the flank, maybe it was wittman's lucky day although thankfully he didn't have many more left.

 

eddy

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The book Villers Bocage Through The Lens shows interesting photos of the condition of the srtreet fighting between the Cromwells and the Tigers of interest to Ajmac there are a few photos of a captured 4th County of London Yeomanry 95mm armed Cromwell.

 

The two sides were not as one sided as first apparent 4th CLY had Fireflies so long guns on both sides.

 

Steve

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