A Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger being stuffed with 88mm ammunition prior to Operation Zitadelle – July 1943
Tag Zitadelle
German “Elefant” tank destroyers on the assembly line.
These Schwerer Panzerjäger (“heavy tank-hunter”) of the Wehrmacht during World War II, built in small numbers in 1943 under the name “Ferdinand” after its designer, Ferdinand Porsche, using tank hulls that had been produced for the Tiger I tank requirement,…