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The Untrained Gunner Who Destroyed 3 Tigers in 12 Minutes

A 21-year-old shoe factory worker from Rushden who had never fired a shot in combat sat behind the 17-pounder gun of a Sherman Firefly and destroyed three Tiger tanks in twelve minutes, killing the deadliest tank ace in the German army. The full story of how Joe Ekins and the only Allied tank capable of killing a Tiger changed the war in Normandy. From the Lulworth trials 1943 to the Normandy beaches 1944. 17-pounder Mark IV. Kilbourn recoil redesign. Rotated breech. Barrel countershading. Fake muzzle brakes. APCBC. APDS tungsten rounds. Every modification covered. Every weakness explained. The death of Michael Wittmann. Norrey-en-Bessin. Lingevres. Epsom. Goodwood. Operation Totalize. Market Garden. The Rhine. How Trooper Chapman destroyed five Panthers with six rounds. Why German crews targeted Fireflies first. Who really killed the Black Baron. 2,100 built. Nearly cancelled before D-Day. The Americans rejected it and landed in Normandy without a single tank that could kill a Tiger. Subscribe for daily British WW1 and WW2 military history documentaries. Comment who you think really killed Wittmann. #MichaelWittmann #TigerTank #WW2 #ShermanFirefly #BritishWarArmory