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Question about a book I read.
seanthehack
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Posted: Friday, January 16, 2009 - 09:24 AM UTC
I just finished reading Patton's Best by Nat Frankel, in the book he kept refering to a German Tiger 6 tank. What is he refering to, a Tiger 2 possibly or something else?

Thanks

Sean
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Posted: Friday, January 16, 2009 - 09:37 AM UTC
Panzerkampfwagen VI (six in Roman numerals) was the official designation for the Tiger.

Probably the person quoted was a little bamfoozled after all these years - if speaking at the time (ie, WW2), he may have been speaking through a filter of Allied 'Intelligence' which often interpreted enemy nomenclature rather freely...

acav out
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Posted: Friday, January 16, 2009 - 09:44 AM UTC
i'm with acav on this basically Patton was refering to the Tiger's designation PzKmpf VI which is a mouthful so here simply called it a Tiger6
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Posted: Monday, January 19, 2009 - 08:31 AM UTC
Thanks for clearing up the mystery.

Sean
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