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| | normandy 1944 |
 | | Wittmann's task was to attack the town of Cintheaux, which stood on the N158 between Caen and Falaise, and to occupy the heights to the north. |
 | | In 1983, thirty-nine years after their death in the field outside Cintheaux, Michael Wittmann and his crew were finally laid to rest at the German military cemetery at La Cambe in Normandy, located on the road NR13 between Isigny-sur-Mer and Bayeux. |
 | | The grave, which is adorned with the names of Wittmann and all four crewmembers of Tiger 007 - driver Heinrich Reimers, gunner Karl Wagner, loader Günther Weber and bow machine-gunner/radio operator Rudolf Hirschel - is the 120th of row 3, block 47. |
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