Il semble q'un train avec au moins 3 Tiger I du sPz Abt 503 soit abandonné dès le 20 août 1944, les 3 tanks auraient déjà été endommagé avant et devaient être envoyés pour réparation....
"Schneider, TIC I:
sPz Abt 503
1 August 1944: 13 tanks operational; attachment to the 21. Panzer-Division. 3 Tigers are in longterm maintenance (more than 14 days).
Total tanks: 29.
Early August 1944: Engagement near Mont Pincon and Plessis-Grimoult.
6 August 1944: 11 Tigers operational. 10 August 1944: Covering position in St. Pierre.
11 August 1944: Last employment of the battalion with 2 Tigers east of St. Pierre against 30 tanks; 3 knocked out. Both Tigers are immobilized.
12 August 1944: Tiger 311 is blown up between Sezenne and Beauvais. All elements withdraw toward the Seine River, but only the wheeled vehicles can be ferried across near Elbeuf.
13 August 1944: Tigers 112, 133 and 124 are in Trun.
16 August 1944: Parts of the 1./ schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 in Ticheville.
18 August 1944: 4 tanks have to be blown up (including Tiger 113).
20 August 1944: Tigers 112 and 124 are blown up. The tanks of the 2. / schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 are abandoned near Vimoiutiers, on Route National 179 between Vimoutiers and the Elloard farm and on the road to Canapville (along with 1 Tiger II of the 1. / schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503). A trainload of repaired tanks is abandoned north of the Seine.
Tiger 213 gets to Bourgtheroulde. Total tanks: 0.
28 August 1944: The 1./schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 (no tanks left) is relocated from Pontoise to Germany.
It is almost certain the 3 Tigers mentioned as being in long term repair and the train of 3 Tigers (obviously gong back for factory rebuild and not 'repaired') are one and the same.
If I were a betting man I would say the photos are the only source for the information on the train Tigers and the evidence is circular. "
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Didier