michael_wittman44 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 WHo do you consider the greatest?? Carius, Wittman or Lafayette Pool. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juan_gigante Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 I am the greatest tank ace of all time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Originally posted by michael_wittman44: WHo do you consider the greatest?? Carius, Wittman or Lafayette Pool. Radley-Walters of the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roqf77 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 churchill tanks of the northern irish light horse. Purely for being the first western allied tanks to knock out tiger tanks by direct fire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Joe Ekins 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 The anonymous and probably apocryphal Luftwaffe pilot who blasted 007 into oblivion, leaving no trace of his own passing in the USAAF or RAF records. The attack was one of the great early triumphs of stealth bombing -- so stealthy that after sixty years it still hasn't been detected. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_wittman44 Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 Radley-Walters of the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment. For once I'm actually stumped, any info on this ace Michael?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoat Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Originally posted by Philippe: The anonymous and probably apocryphal Luftwaffe pilot who blasted 007 into oblivion, leaving no trace of his own passing in the USAAF or RAF records. The attack was one of the great early triumphs of stealth bombing -- so stealthy that after sixty years it still hasn't been detected. After all, it was obvious that tyffies got him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gpig Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Major S.V. Radley-Walters of the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment. (There is a picture of him recieving his Military Cross from Montgomery in NO HOLDING BACK Operation Totalize pg.238). "Rad" probably ranked in ability with the best German panzer officers, but he was hobbled by an inferior tank. (He and his C Sqn *may* have been the ones who got Michael Wittmann and his Tiger 007, 8 August 1944.) Gpig 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_wittman44 Posted September 22, 2005 Author Share Posted September 22, 2005 Thanks Gpig!! Sounds like a hero. Its amazing that perhaps we'll probably never know who actually got Wittman. They could probably get one of those battle investigators if they already haven't to go over the site for clues but likely its a cold case. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tagwyn Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 MW44: Are you going to change your nick? I dont think you should feel it is required in any sense of propriety. Wittman was a great tank commander by any standards. I am reminded of the Brit tanker who stuffily refused to blow away a building when he was told by American infantry it was hiding a Tiger. Much to his later discomfort. Allied troops ran like a covey of quail. LOL Tag 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gpig Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Heh heh. Yeah MW44, picture this as the latest television spinoff of the Crime Scene Investigations series; CSI: Normandy 'Course, they'd discover it wasn't Typhoons or Fireflys, but it was Wittmann's envious french lover. Having found out he was soon going back to Germany to be re-united with his wife, she seduced a morally corrupt German artillery officer. Together they hatched a devious plot to drop a short round of 150mm arty on the back deck of Wittmann's Tiger during his famous counter attack. It's all there in the one remaining piece of evidence . . . nyuk nyuk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_wittman44 Posted September 27, 2005 Author Share Posted September 27, 2005 Tagwyn, thanks for the comments! LOL Gpig. I know Lafayette Pool is considered by many to be a great tank ace but Michael Wittman was as well. They are hard to compare. My favourite is Michael Wittman. I wonder out of the ~250 vehicles Pool knocked out how many were heavy tanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SadSack Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 With numbers like 250 vehicals destroyed by Pool. It's as though it seems his tank must have come up on a few unguarded German motor pools and just started destroying everything. 250 vehicals destroyed ? .. I doubt German tank crew even bothered keeping track of their truck kills This is not to knock on Pools record either 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 What I'd like to know is, how many horses did Mr.Pool or Herr Wittmann kill? I think it is a far more important statistic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Originally posted by Philippe: The anonymous and probably apocryphal Luftwaffe pilot who blasted 007 into oblivion, leaving no trace of his own passing in the USAAF or RAF records. The attack was one of the great early triumphs of stealth bombing -- so stealthy that after sixty years it still hasn't been detected. Bah! I'm sure Wittmann was killed by a sniper - the shot came from the grassy knoll. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 I would put Ernst Barkmann on a list of all time Tank Aces and better than Wittman... And why? Barkmann survived! Madmatt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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