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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

[WoT] Digging Through Archives: We've Hit Them Hard

The first firing tests with King Tiger playing key role took place on September 2, 1944, it happened right where the vehicles were stopped in battle.

This King Tiger was hit near Polish town of Sandomierz. After that it was used as a testing target for artillery to try the armour.


N4.
  1. In the photo: right side of the vehicle and the gun pointing to the left.
  2. Huge dark spot is a reach-through breach made by 152mm artillery round.
Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence, fund 38, inventory 11355, case N2548, p.252