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On July 18, during Operation Goodwood, a remarkable incident took place when a M4 Sherman tank under the command of the Irish Lieutenant Gorman rammed a Tiger II of the s.H.Pz.Abt 503 and disabled it.
Full story:
On seeing the tank he gave the order to fire his 75mm gun at it but it just bounced off the armour of the great German monster.
On giving the order to fire again he was informed by the gunner that the gun was jammed and could not fire again. By now the German Tiger Tank was traversing his 88mm gun onto the defenceless Sherman tank. On seeing this Lt Gorman ordered his driver L/Cpl James Brown to ram the Tiger Tank. He struck the German tank amidships disabling the tank and causing its crew to bail out. After seeing his own crew to safety, Lt Gorman commandeered a Firefly, whose commander had been killed and continued to fire at the Tiger tank with his new-found 17 pounder gun until its destruction was complete. For this action Lt John Gorman was awarded the Military Cross and his driver L/Cpl James Brown was awarded the Military Medal.
I always laugh when i hear this because it must have confused the hell out of the Tiger 2 commander.
Bravery at its finest !
he's a hero!!
Nit picking time. 17 pounder.
Interesting how it has the Porsche turret.. Must have been one of the early production models/prototypes.