Michael Wittmann
German Waffen-SS tank commander
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Lived 1914–1944, aged 30Germany
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A Waffen-SS tank commander whose fifteen-minute ambush at Villers-Bocage in June 1944 became one of the most argued-over actions of the Second World War — celebrated by some as tactical genius, dismissed by others as overstated myth.
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Michael Wittmann was born on 22 April 1914 and rose through the ranks as a German tank commander in the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. On 13 June 1944, commanding a Tiger I at Villers-Bocage, he ambushed elements of the British 7th Armoured Division and destroyed up to 14 tanks, 15 personnel carriers, and two anti-tank guns in roughly fifteen minutes before losing his own tank. Hitler personally upgraded his Knight's Cross with oak leaves on 2 February 1944, when Wittmann's credited total stood at 117 tanks; by war's end that figure reached somewhere between 135 and 138, though German…
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