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![]() In the summer of 1938, it was reduced in status to a Panzer Scout Platoon. ![]() Wittmann, then joined the 17th Companie which was the Panzer Scout Companie of LSSAH. In late 1937, he received driver training on Sd.Kfz.222 (a four-wheeled light armored car) and then Sd.Kfz.232 (a six-wheeled heavy armored car) and proved to be excellent driver. Shortly after, on April 5th of 1937, Michael Wittmann joined No.1 Sturm of 92nd Standarte of the elite Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. Wittmann left the service on September 30th of 1936, as a Junior Non-Commissioned Officer - Unteroffizier. ![]() On October 30th of 1934, he enlisted Germany Army's 19th Infantry Regiment as a Private. On February 1st of 1934, Wittmann joined Reichsarbeitdienst - RAD (The German Labour Corps) and served for six months, until July. He was a son of a local farmer - Johann Wittmann. Wittmann was born on April 22nd of 1914, in Vogelthal near Oberpfalz, in the Hight Palatinat. SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Wittmann was the most successful and famous tank commander of World War II. He waxed his share of tanks, before getting buried near Normandy.
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