Wittmann's Tiger Rampage | Villers-Bocage, June 1944

Now see here, the crews did not stop for tea. They stopped for a vital planning meeting that happened to include tea. 😁

Never forgotten, Cheers to "Rex" Ingram, M3 Stuart commander who faced the Tiger with all he got, bravest soul in Villers-Bocage

Imagine being in a Stuart and finding yourself facing a Tiger, that Ingram was a badass.

Thanks for the film. My Great Uncle Rennie FitzHugh was one of the casualties on the day. His body was never found and he is commamerated at the Bauxeux Cemetery. Gone but not forgotten.

You can say he was lucky, and he was. But he was also singularity aggressive and tactically brilliant. Let's say a different officer says "I've been found out" and fights a defensive battle or attacks with a whole platoon of Tiger. The former would have allowed the British to get their act together and given away the initiative. The latter would have been more cumbersome, also giving more time for resistance to pool. Wittmann was audacious without being utterly reckless. That is how you do things like this. Military history is replete with examples. And as for luck, well, Napoleon said he'd rather his marshals be lucky than brilliant.

One of the best presentations by The Tank Museum.

Otto Carius and another panzer commander went on a similar rampage in one of the three small Baltic countries and wiped out 60 Soviet tanks; big ones, the JS2 and such. It would be nice to see a similar analysis. I have to say, this was a very informative video. Well done!

While Lazerpig’s videos are fun, Dan Taylor of the Kent & Sharpshooters Yeomanry museum is the man who’s done the recent research in this battle - his book is eye opening.

Say what you want about the Tiger. It being expensive and complicated to build and it's a maintenance nightmare but there's no doubt that when it was operated by a professional crew it was an extremely effective beast.

Now, there is a huge difference between being lucky to find an opportunity to grab, and getting lucky and succeed when making a mistake. I do not think Wittmann made a mistake, his actions that day were, as you say yourself, still remarkable. That propaganda runs away with it is just business as usual in war.

Best description of the battle I have ever seen/heard/read. Well done.

A Canadian Sherman tanker in Normandy put it this way; "No matter how well you are trained, without luck you won't survive."

I seem to remember 1 British officer saying V-B was 3 battles. We lost the 1st, the 2nd was drawn, and the 3rd was won. It's the last one that counts.

Many tanks for the informative content

What a harrowing story. I haven't heard about this engagement. What a great job y'all have done in telling it.

Great vid. Explained the action so clearly. Thank you!

Brilliant video, thank you for putting it together and sharing!

Excellent video my sister in laws father was in 8th irish hussars in ww2 and Korea there battle honours include villa bocage and imjin River sadly he past away before my brother met his wife so never got to meet him but my brother has had his service medals and a picture of him in uniform aged about 19 taken in 1944 before the D day framed and proudly on display

Loved playing the "Company of Heroes" mission about this battle!

Cracking episode... edge of the seat suspense... more, more , more!