Good idea for content. Just need to do a tie up with Discovery at al (for finance) and film a docu-drama at a quarry of other suitable location in the UK with all the same vehicles and re-enactors. Its an interesting story to tell.
Heiß über Afrikas Boden die Sonne glüht Unsere Panzermotoren singen ihr Lied! Deutsche Panzer im Sonnenbrand Stehen im Kampf gegen Engelland Es rasseln die Ketten, es dröhnt der Motor Panzer rollen in Afrika vor!
One thing I would suggest is talk about the rubber tires on tanks. Are they honeycombed?, what Kind of resistance do they have to machine gun and light cannon fire, can they float etc ..
Dale Oscroft says eloquently at 5:40 something all too many who fawn over and worship these machines forget. Something which sensible people realise and what so many, many more, who don't share such fondness, experienced. Thank you Mr. Oscroft for those wise words. Real war, the weapons of war, as experienced by those who suffered or died, weren't games or toys to be admired and played with on their consoles in the comfort of their homes.
Absolutely loved the display! Video doesn't do the blanks and the pyrotechnicals justice... to hear and feel that "oompf" while sitting there watching a 57 ton tank roll towards you is awe inspiring. Especially for history / tank nerds, but also for "ordinary viewers"! MEGA job guys!
The ending was well said about how that Tiger was (at the time of capture) the leading-edge of tank technology and truly a killing machine. Took some brave souls to attack it, but glad its here to remind people of what happened 80 years ago. Lest we forget!
This reminds me of when spent brass “disabled” my gun turret in Iraq. Luckily there were 4 other gun trucks to cover for us till it was fixed (cleared). Keep up the great work Tank Museum!
It’s the track noice , my father was in WW2 , he never came across one. But knew people who did. They said said the track noice put the fear of god in them as they knew what it was
The trick was to flank the tiger tank. Tiger turrets were awfully slow, and more often than not, the commander would order the driver to turn the entire tank to compensate for its slow traverse speed when moving the turret according to a few reports I've read.
More reenactment videos! I think you can spice it up by putting historian commentaries and reenactor commentaries. Like, imagine you're a new reenactor and it's your first time to see AN ACTUAL BLOODY TIGER coming up the road, shooting its very big gun. How did our brave reenactor feel? This was good, ladies and gentlemen of the Tank Museum! Keep it up!
When you wake up one morning and Tea and Crumpets are no longer fulfilling your needs, so you capture a Tiger to fill your hunger for the day! Ha! Awesome video.
sometimes we can forget as mere bystanders, those words are a reminder as well as current events these things are for and have done horrible things. thank you TTM.
My dad was in the 2nd Sherwood Foresters when they captured this tank. He was made L/Cpl the next day. He told us about it years ago before it became famous.
Please continue to commentate this event, remind younger generation, how a nation can be lead astray, into believing ideas that till date defies believes.
I really love the videos that you put up, so amazing and so much detail and if you had 1 hour long episodes I would def watch the whole thing and every episode lol, anyways thanks allot because I have learned allot from you all
Love Tiger 131 and your efforts to preserve it and keep it running. Not a huge fan of the special arena display here. Perhaps its necessary to get paying customers to show up for events.
Actually the tiger and king tiger tank can be disabled by the 75 mm gun on a Sherman or a Grant tank. My dad trained on the Stuart, Lee/Grant and saw combat throughout Europe in the Sherman. You told me how you knock out a tiger tank or mission kill it. Both tanks can be disabled by firing into their tracks and putting an armor-piercing round into the turret ring. Both tanks were much more vulnerable on the sides and rear. The Sherman being much more maneuverable and faster than either, would try to get rounds into their flanks or the rear of the tanks.
Excellent video, well done. Great to hear Dale Oscroft's words at the end, very poignant. Really enjoyed Spring Tiger Day 2023, so much so that I'm going back for TankFest in June...!!😁
The tank museum Hella rocks! - Big ups to all the staff & volunteers who work there! great idea to commemorate the capture of Tiger 131, So I am imagining that its capture helped to evaluate its potential threat to our ability to fight the 3rd Reich! Top video HOABL
One lucky hit! Sadly I have only visited the German Munster Museum with their "Plastic Tiger", made from glasfiber as a 1/1 size model. But I know that the Australians are close to also have a functioning Tiger down there! And though walking much long distance in Belgium for years, and looking at several Museums in Bastogne, I never realized that they had a complete Tiger 2 standing in La Gleize, which ran out of fuel and became "sold" by its crew, to a female owner of an Inn!!! 😄 Finn. Denmark
The infantry on that day were, as far as I know, paratroops from the Ramcke brigade. They had not been long in Africa, and there was food available because there were farms and villages all around them. So I'd expect them to look adequately fed.
Awesome video/story!!! Still amazes me that the crew bailed out and scampered away instead of backing up out of range of the Churchills and returning back to their own lines and a maintenance facility. IF I remember the story correctly, just the turret was jammed into place by a lucky shot, nothing happened to the engine/running gear. But I wasn't there experienced what the crew may have been going through what with artillery also falling all over the place as well.
Oh yeah it just seems like there's only a handful of the same older photos but would be cool to see photos of it throughout the years. And they could put in the book the Tank Museum's recent discovery exactly who knocked it out and how they corrected history through a ton of hard research and fact checking!
@@johnanon6938 There was some research and fact checking, but most of it was people who don't work for the Tank Museum. For example, a resident of Tunisia went to the original hill to take photos.
Just purchased a premium ticket for September. traveling all the way from the highlands to see her. My grandfather Sgt of btty 241 61st Highland Anti-Tank Regiment attached to bde 154 51st Highland Division injured not to far away from where she was captured. April 1943
The Afrikakorps were not involved in Tiger 131's capture. All the tanks and troops belonged to Panzerarmee 5. I'm not sure but I think the German infantry were paratroops.
I'm just glad we have 131 preserved. Definitely am on team USA when it comes to WWII but we have to at least respect if not admire the Germans for their hardware.
dale ashcroft well said there is so much focus on the machines engineering etc without the balance of lives lost families destroyed. deifying objects can in some way make the regimes that built them less terrible. bring back david fletcher he would have a down to earth common sense comment.
I believe some where still alive fairly recently and attended meetings of their regimental association (or German equivalent) however the loss of Tiger 131 was regarded as a matter of shame and not talked about
This should be, by all accounts, considered the luckiest shot in the history of tank warfare. A Churchill with its 2 pounder (40mm peashooter) scoring a hit via multiple bounces off of the barrel, the stabilizer and jamming into the turret ring of the Tiger. The Tigers crew helped here too, as they simply fled, rather than... you know... reverse out of there. Or at least scuttle the vehicle. EDIT: then again, without this lucky shot, we wouldnt have a working Tiger to look at.
It's curious that they didn't reverse, since the tank had been mobile only moments earlier. But we can't assume that they had access to the destruction charges. Not with the turret stuck.
Well then how about this then You can pay for all these events to Take place and you can truck in loads and loads. Of sand cut down all the trees so that you can make it accurate to the place
...People write books on the mis-understood PIAT, others take the time to Film how to properly use it as per manual, and others actually fire them in real life to show how they work, and then 3:20 into your vid in the blink of an eye you set all that effort back by making it look like a bazooka. Thank you.
I've always wondered where exactly that shell lodged in the turrets ring? Couldn't the tiger still have stayed in the fight if it could elevate its gun up & down and rely on the driver to turn the tank? IIRC that's what a lot of tiger crews did because of the absurdly slow traverse speed of the turret, limiting it to mostly mini-adjustments on the fly. I imagine the only problem with that being the treads tending to dig into the soft, sandy ground and getting the tank stuck.
The tiger had what is called a shot trap. This is created by the way the turret is designed to sit on top of the hull. If you hit the bottom edge of the turret or the top edge of the hull it will force the round into the ring the turrets it's in. Depending on the type of shell fired it could either stop there or go further into the tank killing everyone or most everyone. Sometimes it would deflect down into the top of the hull, the armor is very thin and it'll go right through.
@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer That's just not true. The hull front has a projecting wall that hides the ring. The turret has almost no parts that could deflect a shot downwards. Tiger 131 was hit in that way for one reason only: it was peering over the brow of a hill and the gunners had a chance to shoot it from a slightly lower level.
@@daveybyrden3936 A Tiger might only have been disabled but I guess some other tanks might have been totally destroyed. I suppose that it might not have been useless if it could still fire its gun and manoeuvre. I would not like to have a been a tanker then or now.
Ahh.. This is so unrealistic. At 2:50, the guys in the Tiger turret are smiling. We all know from 1960s war films that NAZIs never smiled. This has to be two guys getting a ride in a working Tiger tank in 2023. That would make any bloke smile 😃. Bloody hell, I’d have been smiling uncontrollably if I was in the panzer IV, the Churchill or running around with a Bren gun.. Too much fun.
I’m disappointed at the fact that this video does not mention the damage dealt by the captured PaK 39 gun, which damaged Tiger 131’s elevation controls. This happened before the critical strike of the 6-pdr’s of the Churchill’s.
Hundreds of Tiger crews got into all kinds of trouble in WW2 and we don't know what happened to almost ANY of them. Nothing strange there. The strange thing is that, after the war, a few people tried to find 131's crew, but the veterans of the 504 wouldn't help at all.
This seemed very realistic. Have any of the spectators been wounded or killed accidentally by the soldiers firing the rifles and machine guns? They seem too close to be safe. Here in the US very few people are injured or killed by guns while being entertained.
The Story of Capturing Tiger 131 Changes Every Time, It's a Shame That the Museum Itself Can't Exactly Find out the Story although They Have Access to Documents & Records! & Also; Yes, Tiger is a Killing Machine Which Was Designed to Kill, But What About Other Tanks? Churchill For Example? Were They Designed For Other Purposes? NO NOT AT ALL All Were Designed to Kill, Sherman , T-34 , Tiger , etc ; No Different, Their Goal Was Killing
I read only last week a book stating that Churchill gave specific orders to capture a Tiger. A team was sent to Africa to achieve this, these were part of a REME group. The video states at 5.00 that they were "unaware of its significance", This was not the case and the technologies gained from the capture were put to use in the tanks used in D-Day.
It was a great show, very impressive (and noisy!), the sounds and smells don’t come across in the video. One thing from the video, firing a PIAT from the shoulder? Really?
"From memory, then, it consisted of about four feet of six-inch steel pipe, one end of which was partly cut out to leave a semi-cylindrical cradle about a foot long, in which you laid the bomb. At the other end of the pipe was a thick butt pad which fitted into your shoulder when you lay on the ground in a firing position, the body of the pipe being supported on a single expanding leg. The bomb, a sinister black object fifteen or so inches overall, had a circular tail fin containing a propellant cartridge, a bulging black body packed with high explosive, and a long spiked nose with a tiny cap which, when removed, revealed a gleaming detonator. Within the body of the pipe was a gigantic spring which had to be cocked after each shot: you lay on your back and dragged the Piat on top of you, braced your feet against the projecting edges of the butt pad, and heaved like hell at something or other which I’ve forgotten. After immense creaking the spring clicked into place, and you crawled out from under, gamely ignoring your hernia, laid an uncapped bomb gently in the front cradle, resumed the lying firing position, aligned the barleycorn sight with the gleaming nose of the bomb, pressed the massive metal trigger beneath the pipe, thus releasing the coiled spring which drove a long steel plunger up the tail fin of the bomb, detonating the propellant cartridge, you and the Piat went ploughing backwards with the recoil, and the bomb went soaring away - about a hundred yards, I think, but it may have been farther. The whole contraption weighed about a ton, and the bombs came in cases of three; if you were Goliath you might have carried the Piat and two cases. " George McDonald Frasier, "Quartered Safe Out Here" page 250
Even if it was, sourcing ammunition would be tough and you couldn’t safely fire that thing in the arena setting like that. Even places like Battlefield Vegas that have a working Sherman only fire it in the middle of the desert using a lanyard that runs well away from the tank.
Why didn't the Tiger crew drive the tank away? Weren't Tiger crews the best of the best? They must have known the importance of not giving up a brand new intact Tiger.
It might have broken down at the same time. Another Tank Museum video notes that its motor was prone to overheating. The crew also likely had wounded members, which could have included the driver and/or the TC. It's also possible they simply didn't have any thermite grenades. We'll never know.
@@zeedub8560 Another ANIMATED reenactment, on youtube, goes into much greater detail, from the outrages bravery of Sgt Oscroft , sneaking up to fire his antitank weapon, to the return fire of the Churchills and a captured German anti tank gun, to the bailing out of131s crew under fire and FORGETTING to arm the demolition charges that all new TIGERS were fitted with to stop them falling intact into enemy hands.
Many Tiger crew were draftees, either off the street or from other units, such as air force or navy. They were regarded much as any other soldiers, not some kind of elite.
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Good idea for content. Just need to do a tie up with Discovery at al (for finance) and film a docu-drama at a quarry of other suitable location in the UK with all the same vehicles and re-enactors. Its an interesting story to tell.
Heiß über Afrikas Boden die Sonne glüht
Unsere Panzermotoren singen ihr Lied!
Deutsche Panzer im Sonnenbrand
Stehen im Kampf gegen Engelland
Es rasseln die Ketten, es dröhnt der Motor
Panzer rollen in Afrika vor!
Marvelous!
Thank you for including the part with Dale Oscroft, too many people see only the vehicle and not the history.
One thing I would suggest is talk about the rubber tires on tanks. Are they honeycombed?, what Kind of resistance do they have to machine gun and light cannon fire, can they float etc ..
Love this! Thank you for all the work your team has done!
Dale Oscroft says eloquently at 5:40 something all too many who fawn over and worship these machines forget. Something which sensible people realise and what so many, many more, who don't share such fondness, experienced.
Thank you Mr. Oscroft for those wise words.
Real war, the weapons of war, as experienced by those who suffered or died, weren't games or toys to be admired and played with on their consoles in the comfort of their homes.
Absolutely loved the display! Video doesn't do the blanks and the pyrotechnicals justice... to hear and feel that "oompf" while sitting there watching a 57 ton tank roll towards you is awe inspiring. Especially for history / tank nerds, but also for "ordinary viewers"!
MEGA job guys!
The ending was well said about how that Tiger was (at the time of capture) the leading-edge of tank technology and truly a killing machine.
Took some brave souls to attack it, but glad its here to remind people of what happened 80 years ago. Lest we forget!
This reminds me of when spent brass “disabled” my gun turret in Iraq. Luckily there were 4 other gun trucks to cover for us till it was fixed (cleared).
Keep up the great work Tank Museum!
Thanks for ur service dude!
The Tiger has such an imposing presence I can't imagine the terror coming up against one of these in combat would've instilled
It’s the track noice , my father was in WW2 , he never came across one. But knew people who did. They said said the track noice put the fear of god in them as they knew what it was
The trick was to flank the tiger tank. Tiger turrets were awfully slow, and more often than not, the commander would order the driver to turn the entire tank to compensate for its slow traverse speed when moving the turret according to a few reports I've read.
It seems that you also have to have the mindset of a tank destroyer commander to command this beast.
Noise. It’s spelled with an S.
@@robertstrong6798 Noise
More reenactment videos!
I think you can spice it up by putting historian commentaries and reenactor commentaries.
Like, imagine you're a new reenactor and it's your first time to see AN ACTUAL BLOODY TIGER coming up the road, shooting its very big gun. How did our brave reenactor feel?
This was good, ladies and gentlemen of the Tank Museum! Keep it up!
The white knees of the Sherwood Foresters tells me that we ain’t in North Africa anymore, Toto.
Looked more like Walmington-on-Sea ;-)
😅😅😅yeah in Africa they were tanned black virtually 😅😅
When you wake up one morning and Tea and Crumpets are no longer fulfilling your needs, so you capture a Tiger to fill your hunger for the day! Ha! Awesome video.
Well said sir at the end 🥂
Thanks! Not sure people are not doing more of this, it takes time and energy to do this! Folks, $2 is less than a coke at your quick gas stop!
Amazing as always
I just came here from squire’s channel. I had no idea you had a working tiger tank. That’s so awesome.
Awesome video! Well done to everyone involved in the re-enactment
I'm in the vid - yay! 👍 Great day out, thanks to all involved...
On bucket list to see this tank on my tour this fall .
Was so proud to be there! Representing my city where the first tanks were born ❤️ Had a great sense of pride there
You from Lincoln?
@@kristoffermangila yep! Born and bred 🙂
sometimes we can forget as mere bystanders, those words are a reminder as well as current events these things are for and have done horrible things. thank you TTM.
My dad was in the 2nd Sherwood Foresters when they captured this tank. He was made L/Cpl the next day. He told us about it years ago before it became famous.
I love the British Universal Carrier as seen in the 1944 war movie set in the town of Chillingbourne.
Absolutely incredible!
Thank you, for this amazing display
Please continue to commentate this event, remind younger generation, how a nation can be lead astray, into believing ideas that till date defies believes.
I’d rather keep politics out of this but yes true
What a wonderful little jewel of such a famous event thanks for that I think you perfectly preserved these momentous events "Cup of Java all round"
Absolutely brilliant reenactment,what a difference between the smart German uniforms and the rag tag attire of the British.👍
I was there Saturday..Great day out
VERY well done and thought out! LOVE it!
Splendid video !!! Love it !!!
For a moment I wasn't sure if I was watching an episode of Dads Army or Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Well put together video. I hope that the reenactors will keep showing history to the public. Thank You.
@Thomas Driscoll Thank You.
Looks like some of the troops might have been in the original battle 🤭 lovely tank
Amazing video 🎉
Cheers from your newest subscriber from California 😊
I really love the videos that you put up, so amazing and so much detail and if you had 1 hour long episodes I would def watch the whole thing and every episode lol, anyways thanks allot because I have learned allot from you all
Cool..❤❤
Love Tiger 131 and your efforts to preserve it and keep it running. Not a huge fan of the special arena display here. Perhaps its necessary to get paying customers to show up for events.
So, was Tiger 131 disabled by a Churchill tank or a captured anti-tank gun ... 🤔🤔. No matter, still great stories 😀
Actually the tiger and king tiger tank can be disabled by the 75 mm gun on a Sherman or a Grant tank. My dad trained on the Stuart, Lee/Grant and saw combat throughout Europe in the Sherman. You told me how you knock out a tiger tank or mission kill it. Both tanks can be disabled by firing into their tracks and putting an armor-piercing round into the turret ring. Both tanks were much more vulnerable on the sides and rear. The Sherman being much more maneuverable and faster than either, would try to get rounds into their flanks or the rear of the tanks.
Great work
Excellent video, well done. Great to hear Dale Oscroft's words at the end, very poignant. Really enjoyed Spring Tiger Day 2023, so much so that I'm going back for TankFest in June...!!😁
Well said!
G'day from Australia, thanks for the display of the capture of the tiger tank, cheers, Neil 🤠.
G'day mate
An interesting video ,would have been nice to have been at Bovington for it . Well said Dale Oscroft.
I didn't realise the home guard captured it.....,..no great video.
The tank museum Hella rocks! - Big ups to all the staff & volunteers who work there! great idea to commemorate the capture of Tiger 131, So I am imagining that its capture helped to evaluate its potential threat to our ability to fight the 3rd Reich!
Top video
HOABL
One lucky hit! Sadly I have only visited the German Munster Museum with their "Plastic Tiger", made from glasfiber as a 1/1 size model. But I know that the Australians are close to also have a functioning Tiger down there!
And though walking much long distance in Belgium for years, and looking at several Museums in Bastogne, I never realized that they had a complete Tiger 2 standing in La Gleize, which ran out of fuel and became "sold" by its crew, to a female owner of an Inn!!! 😄 Finn. Denmark
It was fun live..:)
A nice still picture of 131 beside the Mk 4 panser would put things in perspective
Cool stuff, Yarnhub did an excellent video about Tiger 131’s capture
North Africa is greener than I expected
Quite a production. The infantry seem to be very well fed, especially considering they were in north africa.
The infantry on that day were, as far as I know, paratroops from the Ramcke brigade. They had not been long in Africa, and there was food available because there were farms and villages all around them. So I'd expect them to look adequately fed.
Yes put out more videos like this more regularly , tank museums numbers will jump 👏
I love rein action
Awesome video/story!!! Still amazes me that the crew bailed out and scampered away instead of backing up out of range of the Churchills and returning back to their own lines and a maintenance facility. IF I remember the story correctly, just the turret was jammed into place by a lucky shot, nothing happened to the engine/running gear. But I wasn't there experienced what the crew may have been going through what with artillery also falling all over the place as well.
I liked how all the German re-enactment team were pot bellied
Has the tank museum ever considered releasing an album book of high quality, both old and new photos of the tiger?
Oh yeah it just seems like there's only a handful of the same older photos but would be cool to see photos of it throughout the years. And they could put in the book the Tank Museum's recent discovery exactly who knocked it out and how they corrected history through a ton of hard research and fact checking!
@@johnanon6938 There was some research and fact checking, but most of it was people who don't work for the Tank Museum.
For example, a resident of Tunisia went to the original hill to take photos.
Wow, nice crowd there.😊
Was expecting to see Squire sticking his head out of the Tiger's turret
A piece of history that we must keep intact to remember how strong evil can become.
Just purchased a premium ticket for September. traveling all the way from the highlands to see her. My grandfather Sgt of btty 241 61st Highland Anti-Tank Regiment attached to bde 154 51st Highland Division injured not to far away from where she was captured. April 1943
Looking at the German soldiers, they appear to be very well fed, when I was told the Afrika Korps were short of rations at that time.
not alot of choices for hiring someone who can drive a tiger tank
The Afrikakorps were not involved in Tiger 131's capture. All the tanks and troops belonged to Panzerarmee 5. I'm not sure but I think the German infantry were paratroops.
Perhaps the tank museum should starve them for a few months to make you happy
I was one of the German soldiers and I can confirm I had a latte and a chocolate brownie from one of the coffee stands before the battle.
And they were fighting Dad's army by the looks of it! jk.
I'm just glad we have 131 preserved. Definitely am on team USA when it comes to WWII but we have to at least respect if not admire the Germans for their hardware.
Well it was captured by a third party, Team UK😉
@@nicktrains2234 K.
Yes!!
Bloomin Churchill tank looks like it belongs on a railway track!...very cumbersome.
the churchill is the cousin of thomas the tank engine
dale ashcroft well said there is so much focus on the machines engineering etc without the balance of lives lost families destroyed. deifying objects can in some way make the regimes that built them less terrible. bring back david fletcher he would have a down to earth common sense comment.
The Tiger never stood a chance against Dad’s Army .
Am I allowed to share this video with my regiment the Worcestershire and Sherwood foresters?
Kind of makes me wonder if any of the men involved or even if any of the original crew are still around...
I think an historian would have tracked them down by now. Most famous tank in the world and all that
I believe some where still alive fairly recently and attended meetings of their regimental association (or German equivalent) however the loss of Tiger 131 was regarded as a matter of shame and not talked about
If they are, there not talking about it. Imagine if you left your brand new tank completely intact for the enemy on a silver platter
@@philswift8311 80 years ago. No one cares. Anyway theyre long dead probably KIA
@@multipl3 Why would they be KIA? They only needed to survive a few more weeks, then they'd be in the final African surrender.
This should be, by all accounts, considered the luckiest shot in the history of tank warfare. A Churchill with its 2 pounder (40mm peashooter) scoring a hit via multiple bounces off of the barrel, the stabilizer and jamming into the turret ring of the Tiger. The Tigers crew helped here too, as they simply fled, rather than... you know... reverse out of there. Or at least scuttle the vehicle.
EDIT: then again, without this lucky shot, we wouldnt have a working Tiger to look at.
It's curious that they didn't reverse, since the tank had been mobile only moments earlier. But we can't assume that they had access to the destruction charges. Not with the turret stuck.
Ah yes, the lush green fields of the north African desert.
Tiger 131 never got near a real desert. It was captured in farmland.
@Davey Byrden yep the capture photos clearly show greenery
Well then how about this then You can pay for all these events to Take place and you can truck in loads and loads. Of sand cut down all the trees so that you can make it accurate to the place
Tunis is not just a desert
@@angelmatesmolan I'm aware, but are you aware that this was intended as a joke.
...People write books on the mis-understood PIAT, others take the time to Film how to properly use it as per manual, and others actually fire them in real life to show how they work, and then 3:20 into your vid in the blink of an eye you set all that effort back by making it look like a bazooka. Thank you.
not that many people know of the PIAT anyway, and even less to misunderstand it :/
‘Catch a tiger by its tail’
How about showing where on 131 the disabling round hit
There must be some witness marks!
The round got caught between the upper hull and turret thus warping the upper hull structure and hindering the turret movement...
It's a shame, a movie or a docudrama has never been produced based around the capture of the world's only operational Tiger I tank.
Hollywood would insist on having the capture made by US troops.
@@JohnyG29 are you saying UK Film Companies aren't up to making another WW2 related movie by using Birtish actors and extras?
@@JohnyG29 Amen to that!
By mid 1944 80-85% of British troops were actually American troops trained to speak with an English accent.
I've always wondered where exactly that shell lodged in the turrets ring? Couldn't the tiger still have stayed in the fight if it could elevate its gun up & down and rely on the driver to turn the tank? IIRC that's what a lot of tiger crews did because of the absurdly slow traverse speed of the turret, limiting it to mostly mini-adjustments on the fly. I imagine the only problem with that being the treads tending to dig into the soft, sandy ground and getting the tank stuck.
The tiger had what is called a shot trap. This is created by the way the turret is designed to sit on top of the hull. If you hit the bottom edge of the turret or the top edge of the hull it will force the round into the ring the turrets it's in. Depending on the type of shell fired it could either stop there or go further into the tank killing everyone or most everyone. Sometimes it would deflect down into the top of the hull, the armor is very thin and it'll go right through.
You can see the damage in photos of the turret.
@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer That's just not true. The hull front has a projecting wall that hides the ring. The turret has almost no parts that could deflect a shot downwards.
Tiger 131 was hit in that way for one reason only: it was peering over the brow of a hill and the gunners had a chance to shoot it from a slightly lower level.
So on every anniversary of a tiger H1 of the first company of the third division of the first tank
I would love to see this in person, but due to time constraints and distance,it's not possible.
Please do a video on french and another one American tank doctine
Re-enactment with French tanks is considered too dangerous due to driving too fast in reverse gear.
@@blubbietweeduizend hahahahahaha
@@blubbietweeduizend this made my morning ty
the reason the tiger was captured was that theres was a button that detonates explosives inside the and the commader forgot to press it i think
NO, NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE.
Please don't post fake information. It doesn't help anybody.
Legendary.
Wow
no way squire managed to use this thing in a video
👏🏻
Even after 100 years the Tiger tank will be the King !
Nice and interesting remembering and story !
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Who knew that all you had to do was put a round into the turret ring in order to disable it rendering it useless.
Was there any tank in WW2 for which that statement was not true?
@@daveybyrden3936 A Tiger might only have been disabled but I guess some other tanks might have been totally destroyed. I suppose that it might not have been useless if it could still fire its gun and manoeuvre. I would not like to have a been a tanker then or now.
Ahh.. This is so unrealistic. At 2:50, the guys in the Tiger turret are smiling. We all know from 1960s war films that NAZIs never smiled. This has to be two guys getting a ride in a working Tiger tank in 2023. That would make any bloke smile 😃. Bloody hell, I’d have been smiling uncontrollably if I was in the panzer IV, the Churchill or running around with a Bren gun.. Too much fun.
I’m disappointed at the fact that this video does not mention the damage dealt by the captured PaK 39 gun, which damaged Tiger 131’s elevation controls. This happened before the critical strike of the 6-pdr’s of the Churchill’s.
All true history needs to be preserved and learnt from, not repeat it.
It fascinates me how nobody knows what happened to the Tiger 131's crew
Hundreds of Tiger crews got into all kinds of trouble in WW2 and we don't know what happened to almost ANY of them. Nothing strange there.
The strange thing is that, after the war, a few people tried to find 131's crew, but the veterans of the 504 wouldn't help at all.
robert cain vc was a tiger killer
Special thanks to the Tiger crew for hanging out of all the hatches and barely making any effort with uniforms in a reenactment
what a lucky shot from the Churchill, but why would they not just use the tracks to aim and fire? I guess not really realistic and too slow?
You can't turn a Tiger precisely enough to aim the gun. One lurch to the left?
Well as re enactments go that was as sad as they come.
How it feels when you are last among your race . Since world war
This seemed very realistic. Have any of the spectators been wounded or killed accidentally by the soldiers firing the rifles and machine guns? They seem too close to be safe. Here in the US very few people are injured or killed by guns while being entertained.
Come on they aren't firing live rounds !!!!!!! , Love the irony of the very few people killed by guns in the US comment .
The Story of Capturing Tiger 131 Changes Every Time,
It's a Shame That the Museum Itself Can't Exactly Find out the Story although They Have Access to Documents & Records!
& Also; Yes, Tiger is a Killing Machine Which Was Designed to Kill, But What About Other Tanks? Churchill For Example? Were They Designed For Other Purposes? NO NOT AT ALL
All Were Designed to Kill, Sherman , T-34 , Tiger , etc ; No Different, Their Goal Was Killing
I read only last week a book stating that Churchill gave specific orders to capture a Tiger. A team was sent to Africa to achieve this, these were part of a REME group. The video states at 5.00 that they were "unaware of its significance", This was not the case and the technologies gained from the capture were put to use in the tanks used in D-Day.
It was a great show, very impressive (and noisy!), the sounds and smells don’t come across in the video. One thing from the video, firing a PIAT from the shoulder? Really?
3:23 It isn't even shouldered, its over the shoulder. Looks like he's trying to fire it like a bazooka.
"From memory, then, it consisted of about four feet of six-inch steel pipe, one end of which was partly cut out to leave a semi-cylindrical cradle about a foot long, in which you laid the bomb. At the other end of the pipe was a thick butt pad which fitted into your shoulder when you lay on the ground in a firing position, the body of the pipe being supported on a single expanding leg. The bomb, a sinister black object fifteen or so inches overall, had a circular tail fin containing a propellant cartridge, a bulging black body packed with high explosive, and a long spiked nose with a tiny cap which, when removed, revealed a gleaming detonator. Within the body of the pipe was a gigantic spring which had to be cocked after each shot: you lay on your back and dragged the Piat on top of you, braced your feet against the projecting edges of the butt pad, and heaved like hell at something or other which I’ve forgotten. After immense creaking the spring clicked into place, and you crawled out from under, gamely ignoring your hernia, laid an uncapped bomb gently in the front cradle, resumed the lying firing position, aligned the barleycorn sight with the gleaming nose of the bomb, pressed the massive metal trigger beneath the pipe, thus releasing the coiled spring which drove a long steel plunger up the tail fin of the bomb, detonating the propellant cartridge, you and the Piat went ploughing backwards with the recoil, and the bomb went soaring away - about a hundred yards, I think, but it may have been farther. The whole contraption weighed about a ton, and the bombs came in cases of three; if you were Goliath you might have carried the Piat and two cases. "
George McDonald Frasier, "Quartered Safe Out Here" page 250
Im going to go out on a limb and guess Tiger 131s main gun is no longer operational or intact? If so real shame.
Even if it was, sourcing ammunition would be tough and you couldn’t safely fire that thing in the arena setting like that. Even places like Battlefield Vegas that have a working Sherman only fire it in the middle of the desert using a lanyard that runs well away from the tank.
@@cm275 Damn
Why didn't the Tiger crew drive the tank away? Weren't Tiger crews the best of the best? They must have known the importance of not giving up a brand new intact Tiger.
It might have broken down at the same time. Another Tank Museum video notes that its motor was prone to overheating. The crew also likely had wounded members, which could have included the driver and/or the TC. It's also possible they simply didn't have any thermite grenades. We'll never know.
@@zeedub8560 Another ANIMATED reenactment, on youtube, goes into much greater detail, from the outrages bravery of Sgt Oscroft , sneaking up to fire his antitank weapon, to the return fire of the Churchills and a captured German anti tank gun, to the bailing out of131s crew under fire and FORGETTING to arm the demolition charges that all new TIGERS were fitted with to stop them falling intact into enemy hands.
Many Tiger crew were draftees, either off the street or from other units, such as air force or navy. They were regarded much as any other soldiers, not some kind of elite.