After chatting with him a bit I asked what he knew about Tigers and he announced that he had been in command of the 2 companies of Tigers that had fought at Kasserine pass! His name is (Maj) Gerd Lindemann, which sounded very familiar.
I asked and he said "Oh you've probably heard of my uncle, Kapitan zur Zee Lindemann, Captain of the Bismarck."
Maj. Lindemanns Tiger also carried 75 kill rings on the gun barrel, 7 ten kill rings and 5 one kill rings, all armour kills. When I asked him about that he looked a little sheepish and said "Well it's not something I would brag about but...."
A side note, I was asking about kill markings on the tank, and he said that they were all armour kills, tanks and armoured cars that is. Softskin trucks and things like that didn't count because they couldn't shoot back and you could just run over them anyway.
http://www.forum-der-wehrmacht.de/pr...d=10954&page=1
I asked and he said "Oh you've probably heard of my uncle, Kapitan zur Zee Lindemann, Captain of the Bismarck."
Maj. Lindemanns Tiger also carried 75 kill rings on the gun barrel, 7 ten kill rings and 5 one kill rings, all armour kills. When I asked him about that he looked a little sheepish and said "Well it's not something I would brag about but...."
A side note, I was asking about kill markings on the tank, and he said that they were all armour kills, tanks and armoured cars that is. Softskin trucks and things like that didn't count because they couldn't shoot back and you could just run over them anyway.
http://www.forum-der-wehrmacht.de/pr...d=10954&page=1
I met personally with just few soldiers of the WH
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