nebelwerferXXX wrote:ljadw wrote:about the Tigers:followingZetterling and Frankson (Kursk,a statistical analysis) the number of Tigers was 146,and this is more credible :only 3 PD(LSSAH,DR,TK) and Pz Abt 503 and 505 had Tigers .
146 Tigers?
It refers only to the operational Tigers. During the battle of Kursk 147 Tigers were assembled, & by an almost superhuman effort over 120 were actually ready to fight. They acquired themselves well in battle, only 18 being lost. The Pz Abt 503 & 505 had '90 Porsche Ferdinand assault guns' in Tiger chassis deployed in Model's Ninth Army. All of them were lost due to Soviet Infantry actions. The elite Gross Deutschland Division had a battalion of Tiger tanks also.
Captured T-34 tanks?
The SS-Das Reich had 25 T-34 tanks as Panzer Jager...
from a post on AHF (by Chistoph Awender) I have the following Tiger distribution:
PG D GD :15
LSSAH :13
DR :14
Tot :15
Pz.Abt.505:31
Pz.Abt.503:45
1/Pz.Abt.502:14
These figures are for 1 july.
On the over 120 tigers:were these new Tigers,or'old ' ones that were damaged and repaired ?
If they were new ones,that should mean some 280 Tigers at Citadelle,but ,till 1 july 1943 only 292 Tigers were produced,and,if I am nor wrong,
,some Tigers were engaged and lost in NA,others were lost in the East .