How many tanks is that in your own source?alecsandros wrote:
SS-Obersturmfiihrer Wittmann attacks the enemy-a Squadron of the 4th City of London
Yeomanry .................................
First, he
knocks out a Cromwell and a Firefly of A Squadron, which had already nearly reached
Point 213.
Passing within a
short distance of the enemy, he destroys the majority of the 1st Rifle Brigade: thirteen M-3
halftracks, three Stuart light tanks, two Sherman artillery observer tanks, the Daimler
Scout Car of the brigade's Intelligence Officer, the M-3 of the brigade surgeon, and more
than one dozen Bren and Lloyd carriers (some from the antitank-gun battery).
At the outskirts of the town, he knocks out three of the four Cromwells of the regimental
headquarters section of the City of London Yeomanry. Still alone, he enters VillersBocage,
pursued by the fourth Cromwell, which intends to hit the Tiger from the rear.
Inside the town, Wittmann's forward progress is stopped by tanks of B Squadron (including
one Sherman Firefly). He turns around and rushes back along his route of advance.
On his way back, he knocks out the Cromwell, whose two armor-piercing rounds fired at a
distance of only fifty meters fail to penetrate the Tiger. After several hundred meters, the
tank becomes immobilized from an antitank gun hit damaging the left front drive
sprocket. The crew bails out and leaves the tank
Tell me why he was awarded 25 kills instead of 11?
And it was only 3 Staurt's not three so even 11 should be reduced to 10.
Thank you for giving me a German source that proves conclusively, using Wittmann's own account, that he did not knock out 25 tanks at Villers Bocage.
Note that the overclaim is over the 50% normaly allowed for.
I wonder how many of those 11 were hit by the two other Tigers (one of which was knocked out) suporting Wittmann as he went into Villers. Did they not hit anything at all?