Tiger 222, last seen at Deidenberg, has now reached a small crossroads on the N23 mid-way between St. Vith and Malmédy called Kaiserbaracke.
Both the still and move cameraman on hand to record the scene as elements of 1.SS-Panzer-Division rolled along north to the battlefront. The picture have now been firmly established in the history of the Ardennes offensive.
An ex-Fallschirmjäger has identified the four paratroopers riding the tank as Obergefreiter Koos and Oberjägers Lenz, Löwe and Hess. The SS officer looking the opposite way of Tiger II ‘222’ is Oberscharführer Persin of Panzer-Aufklärung-Abteilung 1.