Wittmann at Villers Bocage, Normandy, 0900hrs, June 13th 1944 by David Pentland. (AP) REG168 For those on the ground

For those on the ground there were few sights more stirring than a B-17 Fortress on its final approach from a combat mission

Size 30 inches x 22 inches (76cm x 56cm)

Darren Gough by Stephen Doig

and the RAF proposed testing this aircraft with the more powerful Rolls Royce Merlin engine

charged and dispersed them

Wittmann at Villers Bocage, Normandy, 0900hrs, June 13th 1944 by David Pentland. (AP) REG168 For those on the groundDHM1274AP. Wittmann at Villers Bocage, Normandy, 0900 hrs, June 13th 1944 by David Pentland. While other Tigers of his command struck northwest and decimated the tanks and half tracks of the Sharpshooters and Rifle Brigade parked along the road towards point 213 and Caen, Haupsturmfuhrer Michel Wittmann attacked on his own to the south east. Driving his panzer into the village of Villers Bocage. he proceeded to destroy the Stuart and Cromwell tanks of