Description
This Tiger of the 501st had a name painted on the front upper plate, and a small flat Eiffel Tower attached to the spare track bracket there, presumably a souvenir of the 2nd company's time in France. We assume that it was renumbered from 241 to 841 before Operation Ochsenkopf, and it should have had another number thereafter but we don't know that number. The British eventually found the hull in a workshop, stripped of internal parts. As described in 'Combat Tactics' 7.3, they used it for gunnery tests in July 1943. The resulting photographs show unusual cracking on the upper left side; this matches a German report (copied in the same book) of a Tiger being hit by artillery. Thus we have the chassis number of the Tiger.
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Details
| Hub of the sprocket wheels | Central dome is big |
| Alignment of bolts on the sprockets | Bolts aligned with arms |
| Tow cable direction | 32mm cable with the ends to the front |
| Tool holders on glacis plate | Custom tools in a nonstandard layout |
| Toolbox at rear left | Supported perpendicular to the wall |
| Mudguard type | Narrow mudguards |
| Thick area on mantlet | Flat with 2 small holes |
| Headlight arrangement | Two headlights on the hull roof |
| Turret bin type | UNKNOWN |
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