Tiger II [SEP] service entry
Battalion during the Allied invasion of Normandy on 11 July 1944; on the Eastern Front, the first unit to be outfitted with the Tiger II was the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion, which by 1 September 1944 listed 25 Tiger IIs operational.
Development.
Development of a heavy tank design had been initiated in 1937; the initial design contract was awarded to Henschel. Another design contract followed in 1939, and was given to Porsche. Both prototype series used the same turret design from Krupp; the main differences were in the
Florida fact sheet
- Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
- Wildflower.org entry
- Vivian Negron-Ortiz and R. James Hickey, "The Genus Ernodea (Rubiaceae) in the Caribbean Basin. II. Morphological Analyses and Systematics", "Systematic Botany", Vol. 21, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1996), pp. 445–458.