Video of sPzAbt. 501 Tigers in Tunisia

At least one video exists of the Panzer IIIs and Tigers of sPzAbt. 501 in Tunisia. The video footage of the unit crossing a stream can be found on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mak8V0eqcMs#t=9m06s.

A photographer was also present at the crossing and several well-known photographs of the scene are in the Bundesarchiv collection on Wikipedia: 101I-788-0017-02, 101I-788-0017-06, 101I-788-0017-09, 101I-788-0017-19, 101I-788-0017-20.

Video was also taken of the Tiger grave at Beja by U.S. cameramen. This video footage can also be found at YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezqIXn5OnyI#t=0m8s. The footage clearly shows the location of the Tiger turret at the front of the destroyed column.

 

 

 

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4 Responses to Video of sPzAbt. 501 Tigers in Tunisia

  1. swathdiver says:

    I’d seen a portion of that turret before, this is first time we can see the whole thing. Great find!

  2. swathdiver says:

    Speaking of videos, when I was a boy I remember seeing a Tiger drive right by the camera kinda fast. The photo of 823 approaching the photographer triggered the memory. Maybe there’s an old video out there somewhere that’s been forgotten.

  3. ed says:

    A friend suggested this blog and was totally right, keep it up!

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