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in the tracks of michael wittmann:

michael wittmann (april 22, 1914 – august 8, 1944) was a german waffen-ss tank commander during the second world war. wittmann would rise to the rank of ss-hauptsturmführer (captain) and was a knight’s cross of the iron cross holder.
he was credited with the destruction of 138 tanks and 132 anti-tank guns, along with an unknown number of other armoured vehicles, making him one of germany’s top scoring panzer aces, together with johannes bölter, ernst barkmann, otto carius and kurt knispel who was the top scoring ace of the war with 168 tank kills. read the rest of this entry »

how to fly a b-26 airplane is a documentary feature film depicting the training of young lieutenant jim anthony as a pilot of the b-26 marauder bomber. [imdb]

the martin b-26 marauder was a world war ii twin-engine medium bomber built by the glenn l. martin company. first used in the pacific theater in early 1942, it was also used in the mediterranean theater and in western europe. read the rest of this entry »

tiger i is the common name of a german heavy tank developed in 1942 and used in world war ii. the final official german designation was panzerkampfwagen tiger ausf. e, often shortened to tiger. it was an answer to the unexpectedly formidable soviet armour encountered in the initial months of operation barbarossa, particularly the t-34 and the kv-1. the tiger i design gave the wehrmacht its first tank mounting the 88 mm gun, which had previously demonstrated its effectiveness against both air and ground targets. during the course of the war, the tiger i saw combat on all german battlefronts. it was usually deployed in independent tank battalions, which proved to be quite formidable.

Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Aus.E, sPzAbt.504, North Africa, 1943

Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf.E, late production, sPzAbt.505, Russia, February 1944

Tiger I, late production series, of the sSSPzAbt.503

Tiger I, sPzAbt.508, Italy, 1943

Tiger I, sPzAbt.509, Russia, late 1943

TIKI - A very famous Tiger of sSSPzAbt.102, 2.SS Panzergrenadier Division Das Reich.TIKI is an acronym for a girlfriend's name that stands for Theresa-Katrin or Theresa-Kristine.

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while the tiger i was feared by many of its opponents, it was over-engineered, used expensive and labour intensive materials and production methods, and was time-consuming to produce. only 1,347 were built between august 1942 and august 1944. the tiger was prone to certain types of track failures and immobilisations, it was however, generally mechanically reliable but expensive to maintain and complicated to transport due to its overlapping and interleaved road wheels. in 1944, production was phased out in favour of the tiger ii. [wikipedia]

the bmw 1 series m coupe is a high-performance version of the bmw 1 series coupe, developed by bmw’s tuning branch bmw m. it is currently the smallest and cheapest m model available. the name was chosen to avoid confusion with the original bmw m1. [wikipedia]

cyclecide is an inventive band of bay area performance artists who make creations out of materials from the junkyard. these makers create everything from amusement park rides to outrageous bicycle contraptions to found-object sculpture.