How to---odd ways to kill a tiger.. ?

But at least you can knock out a Panther as it turns around...

What is it with you guys and taking things seriously.

 

PMN

I duno the Doll is up this week, how's 'Sterling' doing..

let me go check the Gold & Forex markets..

whaddya say: 3 Shermans for one Tiger used to be about the going rate, maybe if we threw in a Comet or a Churchill in on the deal.

 

PNM1 Wrote: Tiger hunting dogs

Actually happened, some Soviet general came up with the brilliant idea to train dogs to associate the undersides of tanks with food. Charges with contact fuses were then strapped on the dogs backs and you had a primitive guided missile. Unfortunately T-34's were used in the training, and instead of a small scale trial, in the first operation thousands of these "bombs" were released. Naturally the dogs prefered the Soviet tanks and an entire tank corps was forced to retreat to save their tanks.

Wonder how the Soviet General felt ? ?

 

Nobody said anything about locking horns with no Tigers!

Woof Woof!

 

dat was his other dawg imatation

daddle da da da - da da da

 

On the Russian anti-tank dogs:
http://www.fun-online.sk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1855

 

German soldiers tell of wiring grenades together to form a type of satchel charge particularly usefull against the T-34 which had overhang at the rear of the turret. You jammed the charge underneath the overhanging portion. Teller mines were used frequentlt as well.

In Franz Kurowski's Infantry Aces there are numerous accounts related.

 

Thanks Roel.

I first heard of this on a TV documentary back in the mid 90's host by Peter Ustinov called "military blunders" or something like that. I wasn't sure if I had remembered it right.

 

To kill a tiger drop a plane on it
but when you drop a plane...
it'll what a body bag to go with it.

 

Shot the commander as he sticks his head out of the hatch and throw a grenade into it

:bang:

Colonel Kiley (Henry Fonda) in Battle of the Bulge

 

HA HA

THE BEST WAY WAS TO MAKE THE CREW PURPOSELY DESTROY IT THEN ABANDON IT.

sad but true....

Great tank but without gas, ammo and parts- it was junk

 

that was me...

Guest?

 

Apparently you hadn't logged in. I didn't know it was possible at all to post without being logged in. Ah well.

The best way to destroy a Tiger was indeed probably to force it to move a lot; in the end its huge fuel consumption and great size would bring it into awkward positions, possibly forcing the crew to abandon it.

 

Paint the tank pink, the crew will abandon it.

then again,
Why the Tiger? WHY!!

 

bribe the driver with a share of 16 million dollars in gold and buy the tank off him

(i feel a kelly's heros vibe coming on )

 

Well, we do have a Pink Panther out there...
http://www.fun-online.sk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2477

 

Take a look at page 38-40 In the book 'M4 -Sherman' Michael Green:
'From the book 'Tanks are mighty fine things' a british tanker in Burma wrote :
in a recent actin a jap officer climbed on the back of a tank (Sherman) and struck the commander with sword killing him instantly. He then entered the tank and killed the gunner with his sword. the radioman/loader fired his revolver but manged only to wound the jap. the two fell to the floor of the of the turret in hand to hand combat. the radioman/loader managed to grab the revolver of the dead gunner and finally killed the enemy officer'

The jap must have been a very nimble and brave man !

 

The sword is mightier than the tank!

FNG

 

But five men and a revolver in a tank are mightier than the sword!

Seriously. I wonder how the Japanese officer managed to get both himself and his sword inside the tank without breaking either.

 

God, I hate the Katana and all these BS hyped out stories centered around it. The short answer is that this isn't possible. There isn't enough room in a Sherman for a Katana (or any sword for that matter) to be flailed about as described in this article.