TRUDGIAN Tigers In Normandy Panzer Tanks Me109 JJG-26 w/ROBERT TAYLOR bonus

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"TIGERS IN NORMANDY" by Nicolas Trudgian "TIGERS IN NORMANDY" by artist Nicolas Trudgian is a signed and numbered print from an edition limited to ONLY 600 prints.� This print is completely SOLD OUT at the publisher.� Despite that we are offering here with an opening bid of the original issue price of $175.00 with NO RESERVE and free domestic shipping! � The Battle for Point 112, a strategically positioned hill just a few miles south-west of Caen, was the scene of some of the most violent fighting between German and British armor, artillery, and ground troops during the weeks immediately following the D-Day invasion, in June 1944.� Desperate to regain Hill 112, on July 9, the Tiger tanks of SS ­Panzer Battalion 102 were ordered to advance. 2 Kompanie's Tigers managed to occupy the eastern slopes of the hill, while 1 Kompanie came under fire as they reached the first houses in the small village of Maltot. At this point they came head-on to British Sherman tanks. Entering the village firing his '88', Unterscharfiihrer Fey in tank 138 quickly knocked out three Shermans at 200 yards range, and by the evening of July 10 the Panzers had re-taken Maltot.� But Allied artillery had driven the Germans off Hill 112.� The battle raged on for another three weeks when on August 1 the Allies drove the Germans off Point 112 for the final time. read more