"Early Tiger I color?" Topic
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 Mserafin  | 01 May 2019 10:51 a.m. PST |
One of these days I'm going to learn not to post from my phone… So the question I was trying to ask is what color were the first Tigers that went into action in Russia in August/September of 1942? The timing would suggest Panzer Grey, but I've seen claims that all early Tigers were light olive green. Does anyone have any reliable info about the ones in Russia? Thanks,
Mark |
| Marc33594 | 01 May 2019 11:25 a.m. PST |
From my sources the first Tigers to go into combat belonged to s.PzAbt. 502 and were indeed Panzer Grey. The Tigers of s.PzAbt. 501 deployed to Tunisia were in green. The Tigers of s.PzAbt. 503 were supposedly repainted a dark yellow-green-olive color in the Summer of 1943 |
Beowulf  | 01 May 2019 11:37 a.m. PST |
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| Ryan T | 01 May 2019 3:25 p.m. PST |
There is a recent thread on Missing-Lynx discussing this very question. link David Bryden starts off in the very first posting by linking to an article he is working on. Then come 10 pages of discussion with a good graph summing everything up on page 10. The short answer is as Marc33594 and Beowulf state. |
| Martin Rapier | 01 May 2019 10:59 p.m. PST |
As above, the Tigers in Russia were grey (I have a few grey Tigers for my 1942 era Germans). They got repainted dunkelgelb in 1943 the same as everything else. |
| Mserafin | 02 May 2019 11:43 a.m. PST |
Thank you, gentlemen. As I suspected, but figured I'd check before I got started. |
| Martin Rapier | 03 May 2019 4:23 a.m. PST |
Grey Tigers look rather imposing and scary. As we know from Kellys Heroes, 1st SS Panzer Div were using grey Tigers in France in 1944;) |
| Mserafin | 03 May 2019 3:05 p.m. PST |
Just the grey ones, Martin? |
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