Just finished watching Battlefield Mysteries featuring the demise of Michael Wittman the SS Panzer commander in Normandy. No definitive answers regarding the killing of Michael Wittman. There were three possibilities: Rocket firing Typhoon; British tanks or Canadian. Some educated guesswork and measurements point to the Canadians. The British had a rather more evidential claim because the tank gunner who had been credited with removing Wittman from the battlefield, had already destroyed two other Tigers before he claimed a third which was reckoned to be Wittman.

However the Canadian tanks were a lot closer to the Germans than the British and this rather clinched the debate. In the vicinity of Wittman’s ruined tank there was found the casing of a 60lb aircraft underwing rocket such as would be found on a ground attack fighter.