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Tiger I Mid Production w/Zimmerit 1./s.Pz.Abt.101 'LAH' - Western Front 1944

By: Dragon Models

Type: Scale Model

Product Line: Dragon Armor - Germany (Die-Cast) (1/72)

Last Stocked on 7/12/2014

Product Info

Title
Tiger I Mid Production w/Zimmerit 1./s.Pz.Abt.101 'LAH' - Western Front 1944
Publisher
Publish Year
2011
NKG Part #
2147536682
MFG. Part #
DRR60416
Type
Scale Model

Description

Mid-Production variant of the famous Tiger I. It is finished in the markings of s.Pz.Abt.101, a crack heavy tank battalion. From 1943 onwards, the battalion’s 45 Tiger Is were attached to the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) Division, an elite panzer unit. This division was based in northern France when the Allies launched its massive amphibious and airborne landings at Normandy on June 6 1944. After being brought forward into the battle, the LAH Division fought fiercely in sectors near Caen and Falaise, including the famous Battle of Villers-Bocage. The unit was eventually encircled in the Falaise pocket, and by the time its remnants had retreated from France, it had suffered 5,000 casualties and most of its Tiger I tanks had been lost.