Tiger Knights
While under Kling's command the men of 13s.Company had more Knights Cross recipients then any other company:
- Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Kling
- Untersturmführer Michael Wittmann (Destroyed 138 tanks and 132 anti tank guns)
- Unterscharführer Franz Staudegger (the 1st Tiger commander to be awarded the Knights Cross,destroyed 22 tanks on 8 July 1943)
- Rottenführer Balthasar Woll (Tank gunner for Michael Wittman)
- Obersturmführer Helmut Wendorff
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Famous quotes containing the words tiger and/or knights:
“As a tiger may lose its footing on soft ground, so people may be tripped up by sweet words.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The threadbare trees, so poor and thin,
They are no wealthier than I;
But with as brave a core within
They rear their boughs to the October sky.
Poor knights they are which bravely wait
The charge of Winter’s cavalry,
Keeping a simple Roman state,
Discumbered of their Persian luxury.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)