6th PzD - OOB Question - Stalingrad

[Richrd]

In the same passage as quoted above Beever also says; "He (Hitler) was also impatient to discover how the new Tiger tank, with it's 88mm gun, would perform. The very first battalion....." The first Tigers had been fighting around Leningrad since late September, and Hitler had discovered, no doubt to his great annoyance, that when the Russians have got your tank, it's 88mm gun isn't worth a wooden pfennig. I loved the Beever book and other than this have found no fault with it.
The 503rd was also committed to action incomplete, with two companies and 22 Tigers. 2./502 s.Pz.Abt was added, renamed 3./503, in mid january 43.