![]() Of course, Tigers would have been temporarily put out of action or immobilised at Prokhorovaka and other battles during the Kursk offensive but in my initial post I was refering to totally destroyed Tigers which were lost completely. Soviet claims of 70 Tigers destroyed at Prokhorovka are complete nonsense when there wasn't even that number there in the first place. Or did the Germans in reality build around 5,000 Tigers instead of 1800 but only the Soviets were aware of this and they kept it a secret? :lol: In fact, if one was to spend a huge amount of time doing so you could add up all the numbers of destroyed Tigers, when and where and come to the exact figure of the numbers produced. They are correct and the Tiger combat records are now published in very expensive volumes for all to study. Sources are Tigers In Combat volumes I and II by Wolfgang Schneider.Ĭlick to expand.Read the German war diaries and records. The Germans only had 43 Tigers in total in that entire sector and only one Tiger was totally destroyed on 12th July. The above figures go totally against the Soviet claim that 70 Tigers were destroyed on 12th July alone at Prokhorovka. It lost 3 Tigers in July and 1 in August.Īll losses include knockouts, self destruction and factory maintainence (canibalization etc). It lost 1 Tiger in July and 3 in August.Ħ. It lost 2 Tigers in July and handed the rest over to Das Reich and Totenkopf in late July.ĥ. Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (SS) had 14 Tiger Is. It lost 6 in July?(though more likely it was during August that these were lost) and 5 in August.Ĥ. It lost 6 Tigers in July and 12 in August.ģ. Schwere Panzer Abteilung 505 had 45 Tiger Is. It lost just 7 Tigers totally during the whole of July plus 7 in August.Ģ. ![]() Schwere Panzer Abteilung 503 had 45 Tiger Is. At the start of the Kursk offensive on 5th July 1943 the following units had the following allocation of Tiger Is. ![]()
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