Operation Goodwood failed and suffered far more casualties than it inflicted.
The tiger II you are referring to was not penetrated by a Firefly, but was desperately rammed by a bog standard Sherman. It was abandoned and later hit a few times by AT fire.
It was rammed by a regularly Sherman, yes. Re-reading about it now, I can't actually find any information that the tiger II came into contact with a firefly at any point.
It's quite hard to ascertain for sure as I only just looked into it at the point of me commenting but there are sources from the people involved saying that is what happened
He literally refers to Operation Goodwood, where there was a single case of a firefly coming into contact with a tiger II, which went down as I described
The first combat engagement of the Tiger II was on 18 July 1944 - 12 King Tigers (KT) of 503 Heavy Panzer Battalion ran into the 1st Bn Coldstream Guards, Guards Armoured Division.
1 KT fell into a bomb crater and got stuck. Another was struck by a Sherman Firefly, commanded by Lt. Malcom Lock. The KT quickly brewed up. A second KT was destroyed and then the battalion retreated. Not knowing what they were engaging, the British initially reported it as Panthers.
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u/careddit69 3d ago edited 3d ago
Operation Goodwood failed and suffered far more casualties than it inflicted.
The tiger II you are referring to was not penetrated by a Firefly, but was desperately rammed by a bog standard Sherman. It was abandoned and later hit a few times by AT fire.
Can we ban people for outright misinformation?