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This 1996 kit is a repackaging of Tamiya's generic "mid" Tiger with decals for a tank that Otto Carius commanded. Because there was no need for personnel, he was assigned to the 104th Infantry Battalion replacement (Posen). I first learned about Otto Carius at the Saumur Tank Museum where a likeness of him was featured next to their Tiger tank. In August 1941, he was proposed as an officer candidate.After completion of the officer course, Lieutenant Carius came as a platoon commander of the 3rd Division Panzer Regiment 21 back to the front. The battlion had the new Tiger Tank.

Otto Carius, Tank Ace with 150 kills. During the course of reading Tigers in the Mud, it saddened me to hear that Otto passed away at the age of 92. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Apr 11, 2018 - Explore John Y's board "OTTO CARIUS" on Pinterest. He was one of THE tank commanders of World War II. He was appointed to lead the 2nd Company of a tank chase unit equipped with 512 Jagdtiger. With 18 years, Carius announced as voluntere in May 1940, for the Wehrmacht to do service in a anti tank unit.

From there, he volunteered for the armored forces and became a member of the Panzer Replacement Battalion 7, set in Vaihingen an der Enz.As on June 22, 1941, the attack on the Soviet Union begun, Carius was loader on a Panzer 38 (t) of the Panzer Regiment 21, which was part of the 20th Panzer Division.

Tiger I in Combat Otto Carius and the 2nd Company 502 were stationed in Russia on the Leningrad Front.

Carius writes interesting stories, but when cross referenced with actual events they don't really match up, same as most veteran memoirs. Carius enlisted in the army He was a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.Soon after Otto Carius graduated from school, World War II broke out.Carius enlisted in the army and first served in the infantry, before volunteering for the Panzer branch.In 1943, Carius transferred to the 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion.One of the more notable of these was at the village of Malinava, near Dunaburg, on the 22nd of July 1944.Keeping his eight Tigers held back in reserve, Carius and his First Lieutenant, Albert Kerscher, took a Kubelwagen to scout the village for enemies.Seeing as it was already occupied by only a handful of Russian tanks, Carius and Kerscher sent their Tigers in and destroyed four The six remaining tanks then joined them, and all eight of the Tigers successfully defended the village from the Russian reinforcements which totaled 17 tanks, one of them being the new IS-1.Only two days later, Carius was scouting the terrain with a few of his men, hidden in a Panzer trench, with the rest of his company waiting for a little distance behind.Suddenly, they were ambushed by both Russian infantry and tanks.Otto Carius was shot in the leg by machine-gun fire and was unable to move.He sent one of his men back to inform the rest of the company, while Carius stayed in the trench, presumably waiting to be killed.Carius took one more bullet in the leg, another in his arm, and two in the back before seeing a Russian officer standing over him.Realising that Carius was a decorated officer, his first instinct was to capture him.However, since there weren’t enough resources to do that, the Russian officer shot him in the neck, expecting it to be a killing blow.However, after Carius’s company managed to beat the ambushers back,Carius was examined by a field medic, when it was discovered that he was miraculously still alive.On 8 March 1945, 2nd Company was directed to the front line near Siegburg, where it took part in the defense of the River Rhine.He surrendered to the United States Army on 7 May 1945 and was released on 21 May 1945.After the war, Carius set up a pharmacy which was aptly called “Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius. Until 1946 Carius was in American captivity.After the war, Carius opened the Tiger Pharmacy in Herschweiler-Pettersheim.As one of the few tank commanders he carried the highest level (100) Tank Assault Badge and the Golden Wound Badge. Early in the war, the slightly built Carius was rejected twice for military service for being underweight. Translated by Edwards, Robert J. Stackpole Books. Memory is a fallible thing, especially when you're doing your best to make yourself look like a good guy after you ended up fighting for the most evil regime known in history.

German Tanks at War. Author: Sergej 'NuclearFoot' Hrustic In April 1945, he was into the Ruhr pocket.

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