Michael Wittmann (22 April 1914 – 8 August 1944) was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World War. He is known for his ambush of elements...
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Georg Michael Wittmann (22 (23?) January 1760, near Pleistein, Oberpfalz, Bavaria – 8 March 1833, at Ratisbon) was a German prelate of the Catholic Church...
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Krisztián Wittmann (born 1985), Hungarian basketball player Marshall Wittmann, American pundit, author, and sometime political activist Michael Wittmann (1914–1944)...
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series, which focuses on highly decorated tank commanders such as Michael Wittmann and Franz Bäke. In the early 2000s, German historian Sönke Neitzel...
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Michael Wittmann (born 1956) is a German musicologist. Born in Heilbronn, Wittmann studied musicology from 1975 to 1980 (with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht)...
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August 1944, was the German tank commander Michael Wittmann; whether Ekins fired the round that destroyed Wittmann's Tiger is disputed. Ekins died on 1 February...
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Battle of Villers-Bocage (section Wittmann)
and transport vehicles were destroyed, many by SS-Obersturmführer Michael Wittmann. The Germans attacked the town and were repulsed, losing several Tigers...
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19 Bundesliga team starting in 2018–19. On 2 May 2024, Wittmann was promoted to replace Michael Köllner as interim head coach of the senior team, making...
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he was killed in battle in Normandy on 29 June. SS-Hauptsturmführer Michael Wittmann: Tiger tank ace, who along with his tank crew was informally buried...
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known as the site of the death of the famous German tank commander Michael Wittmann on 8 August 1944, when his Tiger tank (number 007) was destroyed during...
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action. Referenced in Wolfgang Schneider's "Tigers in Combat, Volume 1" Michael Wittmann Nazi Germany World War II 1941 – 8 August 1944 138 Tiger I and Sturmgeschütz...
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MI6 spionierte. 18 January 1993 Michael Wittmann: Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek: Kindheit und Jugend. Michael Wittmann: E. N. von Reznicek als Opern- und...
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12 and 13. Fighting its first battle on 13 June, Kompanie 2, led by Michael Wittmann inflicted severe damage on the British in Villers-Bocage, resulting...
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publicist and reformer, lived and worked in Dietfurt from 1516 onwards Michael Wittmann (1914-1944), German Panzer commander and panzer ace of the Waffen-SS...
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of Kurowski's accounts, Michael Wittmann takes out eighteen tanks in a single engagement, for which Sepp Dietrich, Wittmann's commanding officer, presents...
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Misch Joachim Peiper Franz Schönhuber − politician Bernhard Siebken Michael Wittmann Max Wünsche Erwin Bartmann - writer I SS Panzer Corps "Leibstandarte...
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Know | PanzerPlace". Retrieved 19 May 2023. Agte, Patrick (2006). Michael Wittmann and the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII. Vol...
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1941), in Silver (15 December 1943) & in Gold (11 September 1944) Michael Wittmann Kurt Knispel "Otto Carius". The Times. 12 February 2015. Retrieved...
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bishops, including Johann Michael von Sailer (1829–1832, memorial built by Konrad Eberhard in the south chancel), Georg Michael Wittmann (1832–1833, memorial...
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Johann, and the grandfather from Rea Himuro. Göetz Von Berlichingen / Michael Wittmann (ゲッツ・フォン・ベルリッヒンゲン, Gettsu Fon Berurihhingen) Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto...
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twenty Cromwell tanks to five Tiger tanks led by SS Obersturmführer Michael Wittmann, in about five minutes. Despite the setback at Villers Bocage, Montgomery...
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"Birdy" – William Birdwood, British field marshal "Black Baron" – Michael Wittmann, German tank ace "Black Beast" – Mario Roatta, Italian general "Black...
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He wrote Jochen Peiper: Commander Panzerregiment Leibstandarte and Michael Wittmann and the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in World War...
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Scharnhorst (1755–1813), general and Prussian Minister of War (1808–1810) Michael Wittmann (1914–1944), SS captain and tank ace (1934–1944) Carl Friedrich Abel...
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the death of the attack's leader, the noted German tank commander Michael Wittmann. The battle involved Fireflies from A Squadron, 1st Northamptonshire...
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division's four remaining Tigers, commanded by SS-Untersturmführer Michael Wittmann. The main Soviet armoured formation involved in the battle was the...
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2nd Company, schwere SS-Panzer Battalion 101, under the command of Michael Wittmann and with five operational Tiger tanks, was ordered to a position south...
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1944 – Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881) 1944 – Michael Wittmann, German commander (b. 1914) 1950 – Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman...
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1817–1821 Johann Nepomuk von Wolf [de] (1821–1829) Johann Michael Sailer (1829–1832) Georg Michael Wittmann (died in 1833 before the Papal nomination arrived)...
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Villains: Radley-Walters & Wittmann", Legion Magazine, August 8, 2017 Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Michael Wittmann's Last Battle German...
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