Good show on TV - Canucks killed Wittman!

[Phill]

I miss the history channel, we are off the dish to save a few bucks. There was a reenactment of sorts recently on TV of how the first airplanes were used in battle to guide artillery. Transmitters were used but no receivers as they were too heavy.

Just a few days ago there was a show on a tank restoration in England. I believe it was the Sherman, anyway they cut part of a tank in half, through the circle, and welded it to another shell. It was the cast steel section 1 1/4" thick. The welder remarked that it welded back together like butter with the mig, making the point of the purity of the steel back then. Phil

[John McGillivray]

The show is called “Battlefield Mysteries” on History Television. It will be aired again on Sunday 21 Dec. at 6pm and Monday 22 Dec. at 5am.

http://www.history.ca/ontv/titledeta...titleid=116485

Wittmann was with Schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 101 which was supporting 12 SS-Panzer Division “Hilterjugand” on the 8th on Aug. 1944.

http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6455

[Dean (Ajax)]

I know Chris Radly Walters, General Rads son...he always said they got Wittmen...they didn't know who was in that Tiger at the time...but found out about 2 weeks later.

Dean

[John McGillivray]

Originally Posted by Dean (Ajax)

I know Chris Radly Walters, General Rads son...he always said they got Wittmen...they didn't know who was in that Tiger at the time...but found out about 2 weeks later.

Dean

In Rad’s Biography, by Lawrence Zaporzan, it states that Rad only realized in the mid 1980s that his squadron had killed Michael Wittmann, while he was on a Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College battlefield tour. Before that the names Meyer, Waldmuller and Wittmann meant little to him.

I want to ask a favour. Can you ask Chris Radley-Walkers if his family has any photos of Rad’s tank Caribou? If so can someone scan them and post them here? There is one photo of the tank in Rad’s biography but the copy I have is very poor quality and one can not see any details.

Thanks.
John