tank question?

Question

does anyone know the nickname the french gave to german tiger tank during the war?

Answer 1

To conranger1. Please do not choose which portions of the war you want to enlighten us with. For instance .....Morocco and the so called free French. Presume ably they were called this because the Germans were free to do as THEY WISHED IN THIS REGION. The British navy was forced OT sink the French fleet in the Mediterranean because it would not give up its ships to the allies, at a great lose of life and the 'FREE FRENCH' briefly militarily opposed the allied landings in western north Africa.

Answer 2

So far as I know the the french didn't had any special name for it they called it the like all other troops a tiger tank only they translated it into there proper league to a char Tigre
About that the french always surrender forget it and do a effort to read some real history .
Conranger1 gets it right and not like some other answers come on take you're history books and go to the chapter of the second wold war and do a effort to read it and not just the last phase where they say that America won the war and that all the rest of the Ally's where just running in the way

Answer 3

Conranger1 and Gen De Witte gave correct answers.
I think the French called it a char tigre (translation of Tiger tank).

About all the comics (I stay polite but I should use other words), about French surrendering, ... The category the question was asked is military. If you do not know anything about history and the many deads that the French had in 1940 (more than the British because they could not run to an island), the story about Mers-El-Kebir (sinking of the French Fleet by the British), the French tanks (that were better armed and better protected than the Germans), please do read some history (fe Wickypedia) or amuse yourselve in category "comics".
Oh, by the way, the first time the US ran into troubles against Tiger tanks, they ran like hell or surrendered (never heard of Kasserine pass ?)

Please stay serious and keep your platitudes for yourself

Answer 4

Peter K, a "King Tiger" is an updated/uprated version of the Tiger tank.

Answer 5

"King Tiger" is what the allies called the Tiger , The Germans then in turn adopted the nickname from the allies, Königstiger

Answer 6

Sorry, I cannot answer your question about the nickname the French had for the German Tiger.
BUT, Its obvious here from the moronic answers the posters have never heard of the FREE FRENCH FORCES under General Charles de Gaulle

Here is some brief information with regards only one French Armoured unit:

The 2nd Armored Division (French: 2e Division Blindée, 2e DB), commanded by General Leclerc, fought during the final phases of World War II in the Western Front. The division was formed in August, 1943 in Morocco, from the Free French 2nd Light Division. The division embarked in April 1944 and shipped to various ports in Great Britain. On July 29, 1944, bound for France, the division embarked at Southampton.

Operation Cobra.

It landed at Utah Beach in Normandy on August 1, 1944, about two months after the D-Day landings, and served under General Patton's Third Army. The division played a critical role in Operation Cobra, the Allied breakthrough from Normandy, when it served as a link between American and Canadian armies and made rapid progress against German forces.

They all but destroyed the 9th Panzer Division and defeated several other German units!!
During the Battle for Normandy, the 2nd Division lost 133 men killed, 648 wounded, and 85 missing. Division material losses included 76 armored vehicles, 7 cannons, 27 half-tracks, and 133 other vehicles.
** In the same period, the 2nd Division inflicted losses on the Germans of 4,500 killed and 8,800 taken prisoner, while the Germans' material losses in combat against the 2nd Division during the same period were 117 tanks, 79 cannons, and 750 wheeled vehicles.

Obviously to destroy 117 tanks not all French men were cowards and guys who ran away!!!

Battle for Paris.

The most celebrated moment in the unit's history involved the Liberation of Paris. Allied strategy emphasized destroying German forces retreating towards the Rhine, but when the French Resistance under Henri Rol-Tanguy staged an uprising in the city, Charles de Gaulle threatened to send the Division into Paris, single-handed, to prevent the uprising being crushed as had recently happened in Warsaw. Eisenhower agreed to send help. Delayed by combat and poor road conditions, General LeClerc sent a small advance party to enter Paris, with the message that the Second Armored would be there the following day. This party was commanded by Captain Raymond Dronne, who became the first uniformed Allied liberating officer to enter Paris. After hard fighting that cost the 2nd Division 35 tanks, 6 self-propelled guns, and 111 vehicles, von Choltitz, the military governor of Paris, surrendered the city at the Hotel Meurice. Jubilant crowds greeted French forces, and de Gaulle conducted a famous parade through the city.

The 2nd Division later fought in the tank battles in Lorraine, **destroying the German 112th Panzer Brigade at the town of Dompaire on September 13, 1944. Subsequently, the 2nd Division operated with U.S. forces during the assault into the Vosges Mountains. Serving as the armored exploitation force for the U.S. XV Corps, the 2nd Division forced the Saverne Gap and thrusted forward boldly, unbalancing German defenses in northern Alsace and liberating Strasbourg on November 23, 1944.

The Presidential Unit Citation was awarded to the Division for this action.

After forcing the Germans in the Royan Pocket to surrender on April 18, 1945, the 2nd Division crossed France again to rejoin the Allied 6th Army Group for final operations in Germany. Operating with the U.S. 12th Armored Division, elements of the 2nd Division pursued the remnants of German Army Group G across Swabia and Bavaria, occupying the town of Bad Reichenhall on May 4, 1945.

Eventually, the 2nd Division finished its campaigning at the Nazi resort town of Berchtesgaden in Southeastern Germany.

At the end of the campaign in northwestern Europe, the unit counted 1,687 dead, including 108 officers, and 3,300 wounded. It had killed 12,100 Axis soldiers, captured 41,500 and ** destroyed 332 heavy and medium tanks, 2,200 other vehicles, and 426 cannons of various types.

Fighting in Alsace until the end of February, 1945, the 2nd Division was deployed to reduce the Royan Pocket on the western coast of France in March-April, 1945.

For the attention of Mrs. Rooney:
the French who opposed the Allies were the VICHY FRENCH and not the FREE FRENCH, after they surrendered many choose to be POW instead of joing the Free French.
The French Navy attacked by the Allies was also VICHY FRENCH, Churchill could not afford these ships getting loose amongst the Allied invasion Force in the Mediterranean.

With regards picking selected pieces I had to as there is not enough room here to post the full military history of the French & French Canadians of WW2.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The French had surrendered long before the Germans introduced the Tiger.So they could not have forte against it.On the other hand the way they collaborated with the Germans they could have been driving them.

Answer 9

That's a trick question. The French soldiers surrendered long before they saw any signs of tanks and heavy equipment.

Answer 10

You know what they say about French tanks. They have 1 gear forward and 4 in reverse so they can run away faster.