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SS-Hauptsturmführer Michael...

history · 08 August 1944 · 80 years ago

SS-Hauptsturmführer Michael Wittmann, the "ace of tank aces", was killed when his Tiger tank was knocked out leading an attack parallel to the main Caen-Falais Road in France. 

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