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These infantrymen belonged to the 35th Infantry Division of the United States. They did not participate in the landing operations at Omaha Beach. Instead, they joined France as a follow-up force. They were initially assigned to the First Army of the United States and later assigned to the Third Army of Patton; German Tiger Tanks Judging from the logo on the bottom, it belongs to the Waffen-SS First Armored Division, that is, the "Hitler Standard Guard" division. However, the body number should not exist.

Relatively speaking, the tiger tank body number of the Wehrmacht heavy armor battalion is easier to identify. For example, the No. 822 car is the No. 2 car of a battalion with 8 companies and 2 rows. Generally, the heavy armored battalion has 2-4 tiger companies, each with 9 tigers, one company, and four platoons with two each. Even if there is an expansion in the later period, the number of tigers rarely exceeds 3 per row. Therefore, the number of tiger's body numbers rarely has a mantissa of 3. For example, if the tank No. 115 was before 1944, it should belong to the third Type 3 tank of the Tiger Platoon.

The body numbers of the SS tanks start with S, such as s02, and have three-digit numbers. The specific rules are not clear.

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