Infrared Night Vision - King Tiger

[hucks216]

He originally served in light mountain infantry, volunteered in Greece to be in Luftwaffe as a fallschirmjager, broke both legs in last qualifying jump and was given choice of armor or transportation and he chose armor. Served with 3 Panzer Army and was there to see the radio towers of Moscow. .

So volunteered for FJ around May/June 1941, underwent Luftwaffe training and undertook FJ training and qualification jumps, broke both legs, recovered & recuperated, reassigned and retrained for panzer and at the gates of Moscow by December 1941 - a time frame of just 6 months!

[Admiraal]

"He is 81 years old"

Really! So 9 years old in 1945.

The whole story going from paratrooper in Greece, seing the radio towers of Moscow (1941?), being at Netuno with Brummbärs , cleaning up Dresden and finishing the war with a night vision equipped King Tiger knocking out 28:2 T34 in 3 minutes sounds like a real Sven Hazel Cock-and-Bull fairy tale IMO. Someone is pulling someones leg(s).

Also infra-red gives a lot better image than just "orange blobs", I have looked through the optics of nowadays primitive american IR equipment from the 50ies.

Regards
Sonnenwende

The post was from 2003, so if he was 81 at the time he was born in/around 1922. Not 9 years old.

[Dufleuve]

This story is fantasy.

I do have a working Spanner IIa and the image it gives is green, not orange, and doesn't gives blobs but well formed images.

There was some years ago on WAF another hoax like that where the "veteran" had basically used every possible weapon available at that time and on all fronts.

[richardb]

you really mean 23

[PanzerJohn]

A German veteran at the war and Peace Show a few years was a gunner in a King Tigerin 1945 fitted with IR eqpt, near the Seelowoe Heights ifrc. He said they were picking Russian tanks out easily with the kit and fired untill they ran out of ammo, they then destroyed the tanks as they didn't have enough fuel to retreat.

[me6_130]

It's incredible but you never know what could have happened at the ends of the war

A German veteran at the war and Peace Show a few years was a gunner in a King Tigerin 1945 fitted with IR eqpt, near the Seelowoe Heights ifrc. He said they were picking Russian tanks out easily with the kit and fired untill they ran out of ammo, they then destroyed the tanks as they didn't have enough fuel to retreat.

That sounds like the same story.

So volunteered for FJ around May/June 1941, underwent Luftwaffe training and undertook FJ training and qualification jumps, broke both legs, recovered & recuperated, reassigned and retrained for panzer and at the gates of Moscow by December 1941 - a time frame of just 6 months!

I read a similar story of someone doing all the FJ training and braking both legs in the last jump...perhaps her in WAF, a couple of years ago...

Carles

[FJCM]

This story is fantasy.

I do have a working Spanner IIa and the image it gives is green, not orange, and doesn't gives blobs but well formed images.

Any pictures? Just curious...

[Dufleuve]

Hello,

Will dig in my archive. I run the device about once a year to avoid ruining the IR tube.
These were not build to last.

Send me a reminder if I forgot. Been quite busy these days.

Cheers