Plate01: The Alert was given and SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 marched forward to the front in Normandy. This photo was taken on the morning of June 7, 1944 on the N316 highway between Bézu-la-Forêt and Morgny, north-east of Normandy. In this photograph we see Michael Whittmann at the turret of his Tiger “205”.
Plate02: Here we see, climbing the hairpin bends of N316, the tigers of No.1 truppe following “205”. Leading the way is truppe commander Jürgen Wessel’s Tiger “211” being followed by Balthasar “Bobby” Woll* in Tiger “212” and SS-Hauptscharführer Hans Höflinger’s Tiger “213”.
Plate03: The rear of Tiger “221” belonging to Untersturmbannführer Georg Hantusch, commander of 2.Truppe/2.Kompanie, notice the company’s special markings on the left of the hull’s rear.
*note Balthasar “Bobby” Woll was Michael Wittmann’s gunner, later having been promoted to a Tiger commander himself.