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Originally Posted by NickM
Read George Koskimaki's history of the 101st during Market Garden & quite frankly I got the impression that ANY tank with slab sides was a 'Tiger' & any tank with sloping armor was a King Tiger...of course, if you stood around & stared at them for too long you'd probably end up getting killed...and the only way I figured it out was because those airtransported 6pound AT guns were just doing TOO GOOD a job of penetrating the armor of an actual "Tiger".
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It depends were 6pdr hit a Tiger, it was perfectly capable to penetrate Tiger's side and rear armour from 500y with APC and APCBC ammo but not Tiger's front armour. There were 14 Tiger Is and 28 Tiger IIs/King Tigers committed against British and 82nd N of Nijmegen but I cannot recall were there any Tigers committed against 101st. So even if US troops reported many times Mk IVs as Tigers not all "Tigers" were Mk IVs, some really were Tigers or Panthers.