Reply To: Königstiger

[oriskany 60771xp 2]

Amazing Tiger II, @piers .  So Königstigers in Hungary, I’m presume we’re talking about Fall of the Reich?  Lake Balaton, Operation Spring Awakening?  sPzAbtg 503 or 509?

Definitely a battle that deserves more attention.  Every time I hear or read about the Ardennes / Battle of the Bulge being the Third Reich’s “last gamble” I always get a little chuckle.

“6 TA CC” = 6th Panzer Army SS, where I presume (admittedly) these two sPzAbtg were deployed.  There’s a lot of panzer divisions packed in there, SS and Wehrmacht, of course so many of them were so badly understrength.

Like 6th SS Panzer Army commander Sepp Dietrich is supposed to have said about this time:
“They call us the 6th Panzer Army … because we only have six panzers left!”