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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