I have often wondered what they put in Michael Whitman`s grave. He died when his tank was hit causing his own ammo to explode with such force that the turret of his tank was blown right off. He must have been atomised. Someone still puts flowers on his grave today, but nobody knows who.....
The photos on this video are not "super rare". They have literally ALL been published before, and most of them are very widely printed. A Tiger 2 is included by accident. The caption information is often wrong. For example, the Tiger at 1:56 is not "refurbished", it's almost brand new. It's not "in the factory at Kassel", it's in a pine forest near Leningrad.
@@HiTechOilCo No, it's not. It is an almost completely different vehicle. Giving it the same name does not make it the same thing. If you wish to argue the point, you'll need a list of what the tanks have in common.
There were service hatches to 'get to' the transmission. The transmission was removed via the turret opening for major issues or replacement. This was common for all tanks with the transmission in the front.
@@waynenelson9676 Service hatches for access to the transmission? Where? There's a small round one underneath, you could just about put your hand through it. Nothing on the front wall. Nothing above the transmission. Are you thinking of some other tank?
@ 1:26. There is no shot trap on the back of the Tiger. Sheetmetal cannot form a shot trap. The only potential trap anyone can make a case for is under the mantle's overhang at the front of the turret. Others have mentioned other issues in the video.
Amazing vehicles produced through war periods,it's a shame our best technology come from such sad history of our world.Blees all who served in these formidable machines! Great video.
My dear friends and everybody who is interested in History. I have just received an absolute treasure of pictures. Most of them in colour. They are from the German war magazine SIGNAL. They all need to be edited ( some are low quality ) and then I will post them in Batches. It is by far the most interesting set of pictures I have ever seen. So stand by and keep checking this channel. Please subscribe as well. You will then see this new pictures first.
How rare these pictures are or aren't I don't care. They are new to me. Great music and great pictures of one of the best tanks ever made. One of my mother's cousins served with the 101st airborne in WWII and said no tank frightened him like the 🐅.
4:34 Believe it or not but this Tiger is actually just about to join a battle after maintenance! This just shows how much the crews trusted these machines. Russian tanks could fire at it all day but it made no difference.
The Tiger was quite reliable if constantly and meticulously maintained. Particularly with the carburetors, the fuel lines if the tank was new because of faulty welding and more importantly the driver must drive with gloves and have good knowledge of his Tiger such as avoiding unnecessary stress on the final drive and avoid overheating the engine...
@@jackharter660 I do know more or less the meaning of "reliable" as I was driving the Leopard 1A2 in the 1974 with the Italian army. Aside the great time I had, like all tanks it was mantainace intensive, never like the Tiger or the other "Cats", the biggest part was generally checking the oil and fluid levels, inspecting the hydraulic system and the electrical system but also the tracks, literally pin by pin, and more. What we hated most was cleaning inside, especially after a rainy day, and getting rid of the ever present oil stain that took most of the day. The engine was very reliable and personally I never had serious problems and generally speaking also the tank was was quite reliable but we had to take care of the hydraulic system of the turret! The Tiger was much more mantainace intensive requiring much care of the gearbox and its complicated hydraulic system and the carburetors among other things but the engine itself was not too bad. What was bad was the serious shortage of spare parts....
If so then what? The majority of tanks faced other vehicles rather than other tanks. To even kill 20 or more vehicles in a war with your tank is impressive as shit.
the tiger1 was the tankiest of tanks is that even a word oh well i think it was a beautiful beast it had its problems but 1 on 1 i would rather have the tiger.
I'd feel like part of the master race, if I was sitting behind seven inches of Krupp steel to ward of Allied pop guns, and had a cannon, lethal at a 1000 metres
Maybe but bear in mind that in the final analysis, WW2 was not not on the battlefield but in the arms factories. The total Allied production of all armaments vastly exceeded that of the Axis. Technical superiority did not win the war for the Nazis. Like all tanks, the 'Tiger' was not invulnerable, like any tank, the armour is thinner on the sides and thinner still at the rear. The 'Tiger' was a complex piece of machinery and prone to breaking down.
@@jozefbubez6116 Quite agree, what you write is rational, but the fable of Nazi invincibility grabs warped peoples' minds and propels them into phantasy land, sometimes
@@jozefbubez6116 the typical american narrative that says that he americans were simply playing the cheap mass production card with not much care for their crews or better the americans tend to sacrifice their tank crews in cheap crappy tanks while the germans tend to protect their tank crews a lot better and more. You pay in blood for errors - and american tank crews of that era in the north african or european war theaters knew about that very well and complained about that they had to pay for weak amoured tanks and that they asked for tanks like the panther or tiger instead of another sherman. German tank crews survived partially several tank hits but the americans not.
The music is silly. The pictures are common. The men who manned the tanks killed T-34s that lacked radios, optical gun sights, that were driven by illiterate, poorly trained pease peasant teenagers. Tigers didn’t do so well on western front where they were countered with radio coordinated artillery. All the glorious Tiger “aces” died quickly on the Western Front.
The music sets the tone, sad so much effort was put into destruction. So many people lost their lives and got what..They might as well put everything in a giant grinder. Utter destruction, for what.
Why do you show only Wittmann? Ever heard of Kurt Knispel or Otto Carius? They were most successful panzer aces and Tiger commanders, Wittmann was no.3 on the list.
Frantz Kurowsky Panzer Ace's The best books ever Hollywood studios should C.K then make more realistic movie not something like Fury Great picture Thanks for posting Utube God bless You all
He had shown pictures he had but hopefully he had investigated where he had gotten those and if he is allowed to used those cause they are not public domain and each book author / literature agent has to pay a lot for each single photo.
Esa es la tecnologia de un tanque Aleman, por el interior del tanque??de la segunda guerra mundial??.........no puede ser,,,acaso les llevaban en adelantos tecnologicosn 20años al resto del mundo?
There is at least one wrong foto which is a KIng Tiger with a hatch open in the back of the turret. Its so obvious NOT a Tiger one... ah ja, and the music sucks completely. I knew at least 90% of the photos before.
Anti tank guns were counted separately. Seeing as he took out around a dozen tanks in about ten minutes one morning in June 1944 in Normandy its not out of the realm of possibility that he took out over a hundred more in years of combat in the east.
Awesome tank for sure, they were sitting ducks like all tanks due to Air strikes. Most King Tigers broke down on the battle field! Pockets of sand were brought in the assembly plants by Jewish work prisoners. In the transmissions it went. True story!
Actually the Tiger had a decent 65-70%, operational average 1944/45. Rarely did they break down on the battlefield. It was mostly over exertion on long road marches. Air strikes took out very few.
AIr strikes? That is not true. A carpet-bombing raid could destroy a good fraction of the Tigers in a unit if the air force got lucky. But a rocket-firing small aircraft had almost no chance of hitting an individual tank. And tanks usually didn't bunch up.
@@daveybyrden3936 Yes, numbers of Tigers of SS101 were destroyed in the large air raid at Evrecy in Normandy on June 15th 1944 and again in the massive carpet bombing preceding Goodwood a month later but, as you say, rocket firing ground attack fighters had very little chance of targeting and hitting individual tanks moving along a road or camouflaged in an orchard.
To me, the most iconic tank. Tanks for sharing! Appreciate it a lot.
Greets, T.
Agree, my favorite tank of all times!
What more can be said? Truly, a legend in the world of armoured vehicles....Past,present and future...The infamous Tiger 1.....
Tiger-1 my all time favorite tank despite its shortcomings.
Both the Tiger 1 and King Tiger tanks are my favorites.
I have often wondered what they put in Michael Whitman`s grave. He died when his tank was hit causing his own ammo to explode with such force that the turret of his tank was blown right off. He must have been atomised. Someone still puts flowers on his grave today, but nobody knows who.....
The photos on this video are not "super rare". They have literally ALL been published before, and most of them are very widely printed.
A Tiger 2 is included by accident.
The caption information is often wrong. For example, the Tiger at 1:56 is not "refurbished", it's almost brand new. It's not "in the factory at Kassel", it's in a pine forest near Leningrad.
A King Tiger is a variant of the Tiger tank.
@@HiTechOilCo
No, it's not.
It is an almost completely different vehicle. Giving it the same name does not make it the same thing.
If you wish to argue the point, you'll need a list of what the tanks have in common.
@@daveybyrden3936, well said! I‘d answer: The engine. I don‘t know about anything else.
@@HiTechOilCo Two completely different tanks. Not a variant
Baboons must pick nits.
A great gun platform in open country. Great pictures and like the lifting of a 16 ton turret to get at the gearbox.
There were service hatches to 'get to' the transmission. The transmission was removed via the turret opening for major issues or replacement. This was common for all tanks with the transmission in the front.
@@waynenelson9676 Service hatches for access to the transmission? Where? There's a small round one underneath, you could just about put your hand through it. Nothing on the front wall. Nothing above the transmission. Are you thinking of some other tank?
@@waynenelson9676 Those hatches were on their medium tanks to provide access to the clutches and brakes.
outstanding collection of photos brought together!!
@ 1:26. There is no shot trap on the back of the Tiger. Sheetmetal cannot form a shot trap. The only potential trap anyone can make a case for is under the mantle's overhang at the front of the turret. Others have mentioned other issues in the video.
This is correct. Most of the items on the back of the Tiger were sheet metal. Shot would pass through them like butter.
Not one of the pictures are rare. It's almost like this is click bait.
2:41 I know this video is about the tiger 1 tank but why include the loading hatch from a king tiger.
To be fair it only said tiger
Because that is still a Tiger tank, just the 2nd version lol.
Technical yes technically not
@@cowgoesmoo3850 It's not a "version", it's a different vehicle.
He obviously just didn’t catch it.
Why ask stupid , rhetorical questions?
Amazing vehicles produced through war periods,it's a shame our best technology come from such sad history of our world.Blees all who served in these formidable machines! Great video.
Ready for battle? Some have the narrow tracks on from rail transport, you'd never as a commander go to battle in your slippers!
My dear friends and everybody who is interested in History. I have just
received an absolute treasure of pictures. Most of them in colour. They
are from the German war magazine SIGNAL. They all need to be edited (
some are low quality ) and then I will post them in Batches. It is by
far the most interesting set of pictures I have ever seen. So stand by
and keep checking this channel. Please subscribe as well. You will then
see this new pictures first.
Love the music
Yes, me too
Does this music have a name ?
Van Gellizzzzzz
@@davidpeters6536 that’s the name of this music ?
How rare these pictures are or aren't I don't care. They are new to me. Great music and great pictures of one of the best tanks ever made. One of my mother's cousins served with the 101st airborne in WWII and said no tank frightened him like the 🐅.
Amazing photos! Good music too. Can you please tell me where you got the music?
Hi it’s stock music that’s included in ivideo. Greets
4:34 Believe it or not but this Tiger is actually just about to join a battle after maintenance! This just shows how much the crews trusted these machines.
Russian tanks could fire at it all day but it made no difference.
The Tiger was quite reliable if constantly and meticulously maintained. Particularly with the carburetors, the fuel lines if the tank was new because of faulty welding and more importantly the driver must drive with gloves and have good knowledge of his Tiger such as avoiding unnecessary stress on the final drive and avoid overheating the engine...
Tiger crews had utmost confidence in their equipment.
@@paoloviti6156 love your post but you should look up the meaning of the word
Reliable
@@jackharter660 I do know more or less the meaning of "reliable" as I was driving the Leopard 1A2 in the 1974 with the Italian army. Aside the great time I had, like all tanks it was mantainace intensive, never like the Tiger or the other "Cats", the biggest part was generally checking the oil and fluid levels, inspecting the hydraulic system and the electrical system but also the tracks, literally pin by pin, and more. What we hated most was cleaning inside, especially after a rainy day, and getting rid of the ever present oil stain that took most of the day. The engine was very reliable and personally I never had serious problems and generally speaking also the tank was was quite reliable but we had to take care of the hydraulic system of the turret! The Tiger was much more mantainace intensive requiring much care of the gearbox and its complicated hydraulic system and the carburetors among other things but the engine itself was not too bad. What was bad was the serious shortage of spare parts....
How do you know it's about to join battle, and how do you know it just had maintenance?
Japan checks out tiger. Can't put it on a landing craft. Says nope too big.
Correct. And it would not have worked in the pacific region very well either. Maybe in mainland China
Maybe these guys are true heroes, who know...
The loading hatch photo is a tiger 2 but everything else looks great.
8:57 Michael Wittmann's " body count " included armoured vehicles etc , and did not solely consist of " enemy" tanks
It was 138 tanks kills, as stated by Zaloga. He destroyed a further 132 anti-tank guns and an unknown number of other vehicles.
If so then what? The majority of tanks faced other vehicles rather than other tanks. To even kill 20 or more vehicles in a war with your tank is impressive as shit.
the tiger1 was the tankiest of tanks is that even a word oh well i think it was a beautiful beast it had its problems but 1 on 1 i would rather have the tiger.
None of these pictures are rare - clickbait
Najpiękniejszy czołg... przepiekny. Jeszcze podoba mi się tylko ISU 152,
When are you going to show the Germans anti-gravity machines? The ones that are under the South Pole.
Die glocke. There aren’t many pictures of that just drawings I think. But I will have a look
@@valicourt there is a book on the various different types of anti-gravity machines. NOT the blimps. Although it was their first attempt.
What's the music, and who is it by?
Pictures of "stopped" Tigers are not rare.
inspector from japan beautiful !
I'd feel like part of the master race, if I was sitting behind seven inches of Krupp steel to ward of Allied pop guns, and had a cannon, lethal at a 1000 metres
Maybe but bear in mind that in the final analysis, WW2 was not not on the battlefield but in the arms factories. The total Allied production of all armaments vastly exceeded that of the Axis. Technical superiority did not win the war for the Nazis. Like all tanks, the 'Tiger' was not invulnerable, like any tank, the armour is thinner on the sides and thinner still at the rear. The 'Tiger' was a complex piece of machinery and prone to breaking down.
@@jozefbubez6116 Quite agree, what you write is rational, but the fable of Nazi invincibility grabs warped peoples' minds and propels them into phantasy land, sometimes
@@jozefbubez6116 the typical american narrative that says that he americans were simply playing the cheap mass production card with not much care for their crews or better
the americans tend to sacrifice their tank crews in cheap crappy tanks
while the germans tend to protect their tank crews a lot better and more.
You pay in blood for errors - and american tank crews of that era in the north african or european war theaters knew about that very well and complained about that they had to pay for weak amoured tanks and that they asked for tanks like the panther or tiger instead of another sherman.
German tank crews survived partially several tank hits but the americans not.
The music is silly. The pictures are common.
The men who manned the tanks killed T-34s that lacked radios, optical gun sights, that were driven by illiterate, poorly trained pease peasant teenagers.
Tigers didn’t do so well on western front where they were countered with radio coordinated artillery.
All the glorious Tiger “aces” died quickly on the Western Front.
El fondo musical casi me provoca pensamientos suicidas, buenas imágenes pero cambien la música por favor!!!
Read the caption .It says each track track track weighs .... Not tank tank tank.note different spelling and alphabet characters.
The music sets the tone, sad so much effort was put into destruction. So many people lost their lives and got what..They might as well put everything in a giant grinder. Utter destruction, for what.
@Mike Jackson That's the battle; the globalist won't let us have isolationism. They will always want a cut.
Why do you show only Wittmann? Ever heard of Kurt Knispel or Otto Carius? They were most successful panzer aces and Tiger commanders, Wittmann was no.3 on the list.
Too bad they should make a movie depicting one of these aces?
Frantz Kurowsky Panzer Ace's The best books ever Hollywood studios should C.K then make more realistic movie not something like Fury Great picture Thanks for posting Utube God bless You all
Probably because he can't find any "rare" pictures of them. ( They do exist) Not one of the pictutes in this video is rare. Remotely.
He had shown pictures he had but hopefully he had investigated where he had gotten those and if he is allowed to used those cause they are not public domain and each book author / literature agent has to pay a lot for each single photo.
我爱这些关于坦克旧日相片
What S. Rare??!
Esa es la tecnologia de un tanque Aleman, por el interior del tanque??de la segunda guerra mundial??.........no puede ser,,,acaso les llevaban en adelantos tecnologicosn 20años al resto del mundo?
There is at least one wrong foto which is a KIng Tiger with a hatch open in the back of the turret. Its so obvious NOT a Tiger one... ah ja, and the music sucks completely. I knew at least 90% of the photos before.
Get a life!
was ist das eigentlich für eine Lullermusik? Extrem unpassend
They are not "Super Rare".
Shöne
Michael Wittman didnt kill 138 tanks..a lot of what he destroyed were armoured vehicles and anti tank guns.
Anti tank guns were counted separately.
Seeing as he took out around a dozen tanks in about ten minutes one morning in June 1944 in Normandy its not out of the realm of possibility that he took out over a hundred more in years of combat in the east.
Oberfeldwebel Kurt Knispel didnt kill 175 tanks.
He did, 138 tanks and 132 anti tank guns…
Wrong
Kurt Knispel had 168 tank kills on his record. He’s the best fighter in armored warfare ever known.
Are these Henglong or Taigen 🤣🤣
Awesome tank for sure, they were sitting ducks like all tanks due to Air strikes.
Most King Tigers broke down on the battle field! Pockets of sand were brought in the assembly plants by Jewish work prisoners. In the transmissions it went. True story!
Hello Al, I certainly believe that. Are there any references out there, would be good reading
Actually the Tiger had a decent 65-70%, operational average 1944/45.
Rarely did they break down on the battlefield. It was mostly over exertion on long road marches. Air strikes took out very few.
AIr strikes? That is not true. A carpet-bombing raid could destroy a good fraction of the Tigers in a unit if the air force got lucky. But a rocket-firing small aircraft had almost no chance of hitting an individual tank. And tanks usually didn't bunch up.
@@daveybyrden3936
Yes, numbers of Tigers of SS101 were destroyed in the large air raid at Evrecy in Normandy on June 15th 1944 and again in the massive carpet bombing preceding Goodwood a month later but, as you say, rocket firing ground attack fighters had very little chance of targeting and hitting individual tanks moving along a road or camouflaged in an orchard.