{"id":88314,"date":"2024-07-11T02:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88314"},"modified":"2024-03-31T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T02:21:45","slug":"wittmanns-tiger-rampage-villers-bocage-june-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/07\/11\/wittmanns-tiger-rampage-villers-bocage-june-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Wittmann&#8217;s Tiger Rampage | Villers-Bocage, June 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o8Gyv5YYwmc?si=vrNx6uQ_Q-N4Zrba\" 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 Mar 30, 2024<\/p>\n<p>In the space of 15 minutes, Michael Wittmann took a single Tiger tank and stopped a major British advance, destroying 10 tanks, 10 halftracks, 8 Bren carriers, 1 scout car and a six-pounder anti-tank gun in the process. An eye-catching achievement &#8230; But was this a victory handed on a plate?<\/p>\n<p>John Delaney outlines Wittmann\u2019s audacious and decisive action at Villers Bocage against the British Desert Rats, examining its military significance. It&#8217;s become the stuff of legend. It was a gift to Nazi propagandists, who wasted no time in championing the achievements of their &#8220;tank ace&#8221;. For the British, it was an embarrassing blow to military prestige.<\/p>\n<p>Wittmann got lucky. But luck runs out eventually &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Introduction<br \/>\n00:42 | Arrival into Villers-Bocage<br \/>\n03:08 | Wittmann&#8217;s Rampage Begins<br \/>\n04:51 | Rampaging Through the Village<br \/>\n11:56 | Wittmann&#8217;s Luck Runs Out<br \/>\n14:09 | Was Wittmann Really a Tank Ace?<br \/>\n16:54 | Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>#tankmuseum #tankactions #johndelaney #michaelwittmann #tigertank<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published Mar 30, 2024 In the space of 15 minutes, Michael Wittmann took a single Tiger tank and stopped a major British advance, destroying 10 tanks, 10 halftracks, 8 Bren carriers, 1 scout car and a six-pounder anti-tank gun in the process. An eye-catching achievement &#8230; But was this a victory handed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1117,1118,7,5,663,230],"tags":[991,1298,1245],"class_list":["post-88314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-museum","tag-normandy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mYq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88314","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=88314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88315,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88314\/revisions\/88315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}