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(pounding drum music)

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- Reminds me of something that happened

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in the Bulge.

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A friend of mine was a tank commander

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his tank was going down
a firebreak one night

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and he came face-to-face with this

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Tiger Royal tank,

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the biggest tank the Germans had.

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Generally, if you come face-to-face

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with a Tiger Royal tank

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that's the last thing on Earth you'd see.

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But in this case, nothing happened.

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He thought well maybe
they're asleep inside?

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So he fired a star shell over this tank,

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and sure enough, when it lit up,

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the crew must have
thought they were on fire

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because they all bailed out.

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Well, he was up in the turret with

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a 50 caliber machine gun

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and he fired and he killed three of 'em,

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wounded one, and one ran away

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before he could get him.

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He captured this tank

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and he radioed back to the battalion

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and he said, "I've captured this tiger"

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he said, "It's runnin' and I'm gonna take

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"this sucker all the way to Berlin!"