US Army WWII tank Ace,some interesting reading

armypainter · Post by **armypainter** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:22 am

Thanks!

BattlerBritain · Post by **BattlerBritain** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:29 pm

kgpanzer,

Try here....
http://www.afterthebattle.com/home.htm

Cheers,

Battler

Thomaso827 · Post by **Thomaso827** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:27 pm

Interesting article. I think that makes at least 4 different stories of Whitmann's death I have read, though. One had him abushed by Brit 6pdrs when he stopped to pick up the crew from one of the other tanks in his unit. I did get to see his grave marker, though, in the German cemetary near Normandy.

And, yes, I remember Poole Hall now that I see it again - I didnt have a clue at the time who it was named for, though. Walked by there for the scout training which was an armor MOS - trained on the M-114 way back when.

jb · Post by jb » Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:57 am

Thomaso827 wrote:Interesting article. I think that makes at least 4 different stories of Whitmann's death I have read, though. One had him abushed by Brit 6pdrs when he stopped to pick up the crew from one of the other tanks in his unit. I did get to see his grave marker, though, in the German cemetary near Normandy.

And, yes, I remember Poole Hall now that I see it again - I didnt have a clue at the time who it was named for, though. Walked by there for the scout training which was an armor MOS - trained on the M-114 way back when.

Yeah,i've heard of several different deaths of MW,but the Bombing of him seems to come from more sourses.
I spent many times at Ft Knox,and probably didn't even notice Poole hall. There are so many things named after US tankers at Ft. Knox it's hard to remember them all. I rember seeing my first M114 there in '71. Cute little things,but wouldn't want to be assigned one.

Der Kommandeur · Post by **Der Kommandeur** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:19 pm

Hi All

Interesting stuff there jb. FWIW this is the most comprehensive and brief survey of accounts of Wittman's demise I have read (scroll down to the last post on this page):

http://www.feldgrau.net/phpBB2/viewtopi ... c&start=15

May be of interest?

jb · Post by jb » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:34 pm

Der Kommandeur wrote:Hi All

Interesting stuff there jb. FWIW this is the most comprehensive and brief survey of accounts of Wittman's demise I have read (scroll down to the last post on this page):

http://www.feldgrau.net/phpBB2/viewtopi ... c&start=15

May be of interest?

...so many stories. Thanks for the website. WOW! thats a big forum!

Der Kommandeur · Post by **Der Kommandeur** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:24 pm

Hi jb

It's a really good forum because of the calibre of folk who frequent it (people like me

)

BTW, good to see your reformed views on Adler over at microarmourdotcom

DK

jb · Post by jb » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:29 am

Der Kommandeur wrote:Hi jb

It's a really good forum because of the calibre of folk who frequent it (people like me )

BTW, good to see your reformed views on Adler over at microarmourdotcom

DK

yes,I had to paint some up. They turned out awesome. I didn't think aprapo to post the other manufacturer here.Mixing companies(manufacturers) doesn't seem to distract during the game either. I still keep the manufacturers seperate on a TO&E scale,of course...
Maybe I will post some pics of their crews,after all they are GHQ guns...

Der Kommandeur · Post by **Der Kommandeur** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:53 am

HI jb

I understand regarding the posting matter.

Artillery is the only place I have small reservations ... I have a blister of GHQ summer/tropical artillery figures, and notice how small and fine they are. My Adler crews do look somewhat overscale, especially the seated gunner figures. I plan to use the summer/tropical artillery crews for SP gun and AFV crews though.