Wittmann at Villers Bocage, Normandy, 0900 hrs, June 13th 1944 by David Pentland. [Postcard]

P1274. Wittmann at Villers Bocage, Normandy, 0900 hrs, June 13th 1944 by David Pentland.

While other Tigers of his command struck northwest and decimated the tanks and half tracks of the Sharpshooters and Rifle Brigade parked along the road towards point 213 and Caen, Haupsturmfuhrer Michel Wittmann attacked on his own to the south east. Driving his panzer into the village of Villers Bocage. he proceeded to destroy the Stuart and Cromwell tanks of Viscount Arthur Cranleys 4th County of London Yeomanry the Sharpshooters RHQ. Although subsequently immobilized in the village center, the battle between the British 7th Armoured Division Desert Rats and Wittmanns 101st Heavy Tank Battalion continued for a full day, and blunted the British threat to the German line.

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Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)