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King Tiger does a Barrel Roll
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dey c me rollin
dey hatin
A failed Barrel Roll
I was overcome by lol
dem rockets
How do you know its a King Tiger? I could be anything for all we know..
LoL well,I know this for a fact, because I found this photo in the book "The King Tiger, Vol. 2: Development, Units, Operations" by Horst Scheibert. There is also a second photo of this incident see here:
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If you wanna know what has happened: On August 11, 1944 the train was attacked by five thunderbolts near Esterney. The platoon leader's tank of Leutnant Freiherr von Rosen (311) caught fire, fell onto the tracks during emergency unloading and tripped over.
Before the railroad attack, King Tigers of Kampfgruppe von Rosen, (3rd Company Heavy Tank Battalion 503), fought at Debrecen to counter Soviet forces and destroed several enemy tanks without any own losses, except for a few vehicles of which suffered from mechanical failure.
sad photo