Tiger 221 of s PzAbt 504 knocked out in Cecina Italy on July 1st 1944

If you want to help keep the caffeine flowing The tank was knocked out by a shot to the side at less 30 yards from a 752nd Tank Battalion Sherman crewed by platoon leader Lieutenant Edwin W. Cox on July 1st 1944 Cox’s Sherman had just passed Via Manzoni on its left. Just moments before Tiger 221 rounded the curve onto Via Montanara, the crew of Sherman 11 spotted a German infantry soldier in a ditch alongside the road. Unknown to the American tankers, the German scout was acting as a “spotter“ for Tiger 221. As the infantry scout stood up to motion the Tiger on, he was immediately hit by machine gun fire, clasping his stomach as he fell. As the German spotter fell, the Sherman tank crew saw the main gun barrel of Tiger 221 emerge from behind a two-story house on the left side of Via Montanara near the curve in the road. At that moment, Tiger 221 rounded the curve onto Via Montanara and came face to face with the Lieutenant Cox’s S