Doing a report on the King Tiger. NEED HELP!

I am doing a 700 word report in English on the history of the King Tiger and need as much info about it and its short life as I can.

 

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I'd like to see it as well. Just one question, does your school/college accept Wiki as source material?

 

Wikipedia not exepted

 

The point about wiki, apart from the information provided, is to check out the sources. This particular article leads you here which lists all the books that they consulted.

The trick to research is to follow the (cyber)paper trail.

And I think you mean "accepted"

 

Most of the articles on wikipedia are not CITED!

 

Most of the articles on wikipedia are not CITED!

Yes, but THIS one is

 

The King Tiger? there were very few about. We captured in a wood in Belgium a whole enemy arms dump. Captured is the wrong word, we just found it. Everywhere there was the paraphernalia of war stacked up neatly in amongst the trees, and there stood a absolutely brand spanking new King Tiger. We had a look at it, but decided not to enter as we were only too aware of the thing being booby trapped.
They booby trapped their own officers and men.
Sapper

 

Oddly enough Owen, The King Tiger was painted in a sandy colour. What we wondered at the time was the width of the tracks. Huge thing. We touched nothing there. If there was booby trapped? others could find that out...

It was near that place that we buried "Deep" our flamethrowers. They were the lifebelt type, with a circular tank on your back.They must still be there. None of us liked flamethrowers and they were not used much. for obvious reasons, if a bullet hit the tank? you are stood in the centre of a huge 50 foot diameter ball of flame.....Not nice.
Sapper

 

I can recall the absolute enormity of the thing. the width of the tracks were much wider than previous tanks. I often wondered why it was painted in the sandy colour?

The one at Bovington just makes you realise what we were up against with the "Konigs Tiger" I bet that Bovy would love to have got hold of the Tiger in the woods in Belgium. I could also never understand why the enemy left such a wealth of munitions and armour. For us it was just another thing that happens, we come across these things and move on.
Sapper

 

Bryan, the orders were from early 1943 that German vehicles should be painted in "Sand" with camouflage patterns in Brown and Green applied at the field at unit commander's discretion. Of course the coverage in the secondary colours would vary a lot. Vehicles came out of factory in plain Sand, later with camouflage schemes already applied.

Examples here: ARMOR CAMOUFLAGE & MARKINGS By: G. BRADFORD



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