The fierce and bitter conflict on the Eastern Front, lasting four long years, would produce its own special brand of soldier, many of whom could be counted on both sides. One of these was the young Leibstandarte assault gun commander Michael Wittmann.
Wittmann would receive his baptism of fire in a StuG III assault gun in the vast Steppes of Ukraine. Here is the story of “Point 65.5” where he had met with 18 T-34-76s.
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Narrative derived from a selection of reports cited in Gary L. Simpson’s Tiger Ace: The Life Story of Michael Wittmann and Patrick Agte’s Michael Wittmann and the Panzer Commanders of the Leibstandarte
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