{"id":102105,"date":"2026-09-03T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102105"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:49:30","slug":"the-last-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/the-last-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FV0PljhrBDg?si=bWdGnKhDxK2hCaxe\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 24 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>The war has raged for more than 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>In the Essel Forest, on the north German plain, a troop of British Comet cruiser tanks halts for a brew.<\/p>\n<p>A shot rings out <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Tiger!<\/p>\n<p>Within seconds one of the Comets is hit.<\/p>\n<p>The war is far from over &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is the story of a fascinating and dangerous moment in time \u2013 one of the last duels between the brilliant Comet and the legendary Tiger.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Introduction<br \/>\n00:42 | The Last Tiger<br \/>\n04:55 | The Rise and Fall of the <em>Kampfgruppen<\/em><br \/>\n06:40 | The British Armour<br \/>\n07:52 | Tiger v Comet<br \/>\n13:08 | April 13th 1945<\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9. <\/p>\n<p>In this film, join Chris Copson as he tells the story of one of the last tank duels of the Second World War. On one side, the Tiger. With its 88mm gun and almost impenetrable armour, it had inspired fear in many Allied tank crews. But on the other side, the Brits were prepared with the latest in tank technology \u2013 the Comet. Both were imposing sights on the late WWII battlefield, but who would come out on top in the depths of the Essel Forest?<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about the Tiger and Comet tanks? Here are some of the sources we used to make this film:<\/p>\n<p><em>Battleground<\/em>, Zaloga (Ed), Osprey, 2011.<br \/>\n<em>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Comet<\/em>, Fletcher, 2017<br \/>\n<em>Encyclopaedia of British and American Tanks of WW II<\/em>, Chamberlain and Ellis, Cassell 2014.<br \/>\n<em>Encyclopaedia of German Tanks of WWII<\/em>, Chamberlain and Doyle, Cassell 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published 24 Apr 2026 The war has raged for more than 5 years. In the Essel Forest, on the north German plain, a troop of British Comet cruiser tanks halts for a brew. A shot rings out It&#8217;s a Tiger! Within seconds one of the Comets is hit. The war is far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,1118,7,5,663,230],"tags":[991,1298],"class_list":["post-102105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-museum"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qyR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102106,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102105\/revisions\/102106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}