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Jagd Tiger used in Battle of Hurtgen Forest?
chip250
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Posted: Monday, September 29, 2003 - 05:53 PM UTC
Did they use this piece of military hardware in the Battle of the Hurtgean Forest?

And did she have Zim?

~Chip :-)
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Posted: Monday, September 29, 2003 - 06:38 PM UTC
AFAIK, no JagdTigers were at the Hurtgen forrest or the Ardennes - here is a link with a breif history of the two main units to have the JTs. AFAIK, it looks like only a couple JTs made to the eastern front.

All of the Porsche-chassis JTs had zimm, and were almost all exclusively in the 653 s.Pz.Jäg.Abt., while the 512th had the Henschels, no zimm.

I can't recall the name of the Tiger book I read, where they give a slightly better history of the two s.Pz.Jäg.Abt. units. There is a whole book - or maybe now up to a second vol - dedicated to the JTs of these two units. Breif histories both.
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Posted: Monday, September 29, 2003 - 08:33 PM UTC
If I recall well, Jagdtigers were used a lot around Paderborn, in Germany.
chip250
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Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 04:39 PM UTC
Thank you gentlemen.

~Chip :-)
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Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 03:05 AM UTC
and in anround the hartz mountains there is a famous picture of one which has been totally wasted with a GI having a look at it
chip250
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Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 04:06 AM UTC
That picture is in fact in my book Panzer that I have at home. Actually I highly reccomend that book! Great book!

~Chip :-)
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