Altaya-Panzerjager-Tiger-Ausf_-B-Tank

This item is constructed of die cast metal with some plastic parts

The first combat use of the Panzerjager Tiger Ausf. B, also known as Tiger II, was by the 1st Company of the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion during the Battle of Normandy, opposing Operation Atlantic between Troarn and Demouville on July 18th,1944. On the Eastern Front, it was first used on August 12th,1944 by the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion resisting the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive. It attacked the Soviet bridgehead over the Vistula River near Baranów Sandomierski. On October 15th,1944 Tiger IIs of 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion played crucial roles during Operation Panzerfaust, supporting Otto Skorzeny's troops in taking the Hungarian capital of Budapest, which ensured that the country remained with the Axis until the end of the war. The 503rd then took part in the Battle of Debrecen. The Tiger II was also present at the Ardennes Offensive of December 1944, the Soviet Vistula–Oder and East Prussian Offensives in January 1945, the German Lake Balaton Offensive in Hungary in March 1945, the Battle of the Seelow Heights in April 1945, and the Battle of Berlin at the end of the war.