Gerhard Fischer Died : 1 / 1 / 2013

Gerhard Fischer (deceased) World War Two Panzer tank Ace with 102 tank victories. Chief of the 8./Panzer-Regiment 2, he took part in the Battle of France, Second Battle of Kharkov, Operation Winter Storm, Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive, First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive, and Operation Spring Awakening. He received the Knights Cross for actions on 28th December 1943. He was also a recipient of the Panzer Badge and German Cross in Gold. Later, a member of the Bundeswehr from 1959 to 1972. Died in 2013.

Latest Gerhard Fischer (deceased) Signed Artwork Releases !
Tiger on the Russian Front by Jason Askew. (P)	Afrika Korps by Jason Askew. (P)	Tiger Legend - Ernst Barkmann by Jason Askew. (P)	Panther on the Russian Front by Jason Askew. (P)

Items Signed by Gerhard Fischer (deceased)

	Pak40 Mounted on SPW Half-Track by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	The Pak 40 - a hard hitting 75mm German anti-tank gun-seen here mounted on an SPW for greater battlefield mobility was essentially a scaled up version of the PaK 38 debuted in Russia where it was needed to combat the newest Soviet tanks there. It w......
	Michael Wittmann - Battle of Kursk by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	Michael Wittman at the battle of Kursk. On the first day of the attack, X-Day, 5th July 1943, eleven Tigers under SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Kling move northwards to the town of Bykovka, under instructions to break through the Soviet defences located to ......
	Panzergrenadiers by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	Elite German Panzergrenadiers accompany a Tiger tank on the Russian Front in 1943. ......
	The Russian Front by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	A German machine gun team and a Tiger tank on the Russian Front in 1943. ......
	Tank vs Tank Combat on the Russian Front by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	A German Panther tank in combat with a Russian T-34 tank.......

	Panther in the Ardennes by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	A Panther tank is supported by elite Panzergrenadiers in the Ardennes in 1944. ......
	Panther on the Russian Front by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	A German Panther tank is assisted in combat by infantry on the Russian Front in 1943. ......
	Tiger Legend - Ernst Barkmann by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	Two portraits of legendary Tiger tank commander Ernst Barkmann, alongside an example of the much feared Tiger tank. ......
	Afrika Korps by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	A Sd.Kfz.222 and a Panzer IV tank during the combat in North Africa. ......
	Tiger on the Russian Front by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	......

	Clipped Signature - Gerhard Fischer. Price : £45.00	A Panzer Tank Ace who took part in operations in the West and East. He scored 102 tank victories and was awarded the Knight's Cross. He died in 2013. ......
	Taming the Tiger by Geoff Lea. (B) Price : £140.00	It is August 1944, barely two months since the Allies landed their first troops on the beaches of Normandy. After the failed Operation Luttich (codename given to a German counterattack during the Battle of Normandy, which took place around the Ame......
	Kerscher's Defence of Neuhauser Forest by David Pentland. (B) Price : £120.00	Oberfeldwebel Albert Kerscher, commander of 2nd company 511 Heavy Tank Battalion aided by a Panzer IV, two Hetzers, a Kingtiger and a Pak gun, successfully defended against concerted Soviet air and armoured attacks, his action buying valuable time f......
	Operation Winter Tempest by David Pentland. (B) Price : £110.00	Panzer IVF2 tanks of 6th Panzer Division, Panzer Armee Hoth, attempt to fight their way through to the beleaguered Sixth Army at Stalingrad, 12th December 1942. On the 21st the operation was abandoned when the expected breakout from Stalingrad fai......
	Barkmann's Corner by David Pentland. (B) Price : £120.00	Ernst Barkmanns (Das Reich, 2nd SS Panzer Division) famous day long solo engagement against an American Armoured breakthrough towards St. Lo, Normandy, 26th July 1944. ......

	Operation Zitadelle by David Pentland. (B) Price : £125.00	Panzer v Ausf. D Panthers of SS Panther Division Das Reich make their debut during the initial stages of the German summer offensive for Kursk. This unit with others of the SS Panzer Korps made the deepest advances into the well-prepared Soviet line......
	Kampfgruppe Peiper by David Pentland. (B) Price : £120.00	Oberssturmbannfuhrer Jochim Peiper, commander of the armoured spearhead of 1st SS Panzer Division, in conference with some of the officers of other units under his command. Aside form men and tanks of his own division, these included King tigers of ......
	Fight for Kowel, Poland, March/April 1944 by David Pentland. (B) Price : £120.00	Although in the process of regrouping after their escape from the Cherkassy Pocket, Panthers and Panzer Grenadiers of the crack 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking are part of the relief force hastily assembled and thrown in to free the strategically impo......
	Rommel in Normandy, France, 2nd July 1944 by David Pentland. (B) Price : £130.00	Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, commander of Army Group B, consults with his former subordinate from North Africa, now divisional commander of the elite Panzer Lehr, General Fritz Bayerlein and the Colonel Rudolf Gerhardt of Panzer Regiment Lehr,......
	Defence of the Reichstag, Berlin, 1st May 1945 by David Pentland. (B) Price : £120.00	On the 30th April, Untersharfuhrer Georg Diers and his crew of tank 314, were ordered to take up a defensive position at the Reichstag buildings. This was one of only two remaining King Tigers belonging to Heavy SS Tank Battalion 503 in Berlin. By t......

	Tiger at the Gate, Berlin, 30th April 1945 by David Pentland. (B) Price : £125.00	A Tiger I and PAK 40 anti tank gun of the Muncheberg Division, field a final defence of the capital in front of the Brandenburg Gate under the shattered remains of the famous Linden trees. The under-strength division had just been formed the previou......
	Panther at the Zoo, Tiergarten, Berlin, 2nd May 1945 by David Pentland. (B) SOLD OUT	Below the vast bulk of the Zoo Bunker one of three giant Flak towers designed to defend Berlin from air attack, some remnants of the citys defenders gather in an attempt to break out of the doomed capital. Amongst which are troops from the 9th Falls......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Escape to the Elbe, Berlin, 3rd May 1945 by David Pentland. (B) SOLD OUT	Following Hitlers death, the decision was taken by the officers and men of Sturmartillerie Brigade 249 to break out of the doomed capital. Shortly before midnight on the 3rd, what remained of the unit fought to the edge of the city at Spandau. By th......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Tiger I of the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division, Poland 1944 by Randall Wilson. (B) Price : £145.00	The crew of a late model Tiger I of the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division, manage to take a short break from the fighting around Warsaw, during the German assault, having pushed the Soviet forces out of the city and across the Vistula River. ......
	Konigstiger Ausf B by Randall Wilson. (B) Price : £145.00	With assault troops on board, a king tiger from Schwere Panzer Abteilung 511 leads a Jagdpanther down a morning misty road May 1945. ......

	Holding the Line by Richard Taylor. (B) Price : £1095.00	Skillfully led by their mercurial commander, SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Wittmann, the Tiger Tanks of s.SS-Pz. Abt. 101 blaze through a shattered French village in the days following D-Day, June, 1944. Their destination - Normandy! ......
	Tigers in Normandy by Nicolas Trudgian. (D) Price : £230.00	The Battle for Point 112, a strategically positioned hill just a few miles south-west of Caen, was the scene of the most violent fighting between German and British armor, artillery and ground troops during the weeks immediately following the D-Day ......
	Kursk - Clash of Steel by Nicolas Trudgian. (F) Price : £220.00	The Germans launched their attack on the Kursk salient on 5th July 1943, and for both sides this was maximum effort. The Soviets, however, informed by intelligence of the impending German attack, had ample time to prepare huge defensive works with h......
	Closing the Gap by Robert Taylor. (D) SOLD OUT	As Typhoon Mk1b fighter-bombers of 247 Squadron exit the target area near Falaise at full throttle, the havoc wreaked in their wake bears witness to the devastation of their powerful rockets. Fuel and ammunition from the retreating German column exp......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Barvenkovo by David Pentland. Price : £75.00	Gerhard Fischer. Russia, 25th February 1943. Marder II, PzJager Battalion 5,SS Panzer Grenadier Division Wiking. ......

	Barvenkovo by David Pentland. (AP) Price : £100.00	Gerhard Fischer. Russia, 25th February 1943. Marder II, PzJager Battalion 5,SS Panzer Grenadier Division Wiking. ......
	Barvenkovo by David Pentland. (P) SOLD OUT	Gerhard Fischer. Russia, 25th February 1943. Marder II, PzJager Battalion 5,SS Panzer Grenadier Division Wiking. Marder II and PzIII of 5th SS Panzer Grenadier Division Wiking during the pursuit of retreating Soviet forces south of Kharkov. Heavil......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Holding the Vistula by David Pentland. Price : £75.00	Gerhard Fischer. Poland, 31st July 1944. Jagdpanzer IV Pz Jager Batt 5, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. ......
	Holding the Vistula by David Pentland. (AP) Price : £100.00	Gerhard Fischer. Poland, 31st July 1944. Jagdpanzer IV Pz Jager Batt 5, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. ......
	Holding the Vistula by David Pentland. (P) Price : £440.00	Gerhard Fischer. Poland, 31st July 1944. Jagdpanzer IV Pz Jager Batt 5, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. Jagdpanzer IVs of 5th SS Panzer Panzerjager battalion Wiking employed east of Warsaw to halt the Soviet attempts to break into the besieged city......

	Lying in Wait by David Pentland. Price : £75.00	Gerhard Fischer. Poland, 14th August 1944 - Jagdpanzer IV of Jagd Pz Batt 5, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. ......
	Lying in Wait by David Pentland. (AP) Price : £120.00	Gerhard Fischer. Poland, 14th August 1944 - Jagdpanzer IV of Jagd Pz Batt 5, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. ......
	Lying in Wait by David Pentland. (P) Price : £420.00	Gerhard Fischer. Poland, 14th August 1944 - Jagdpanzer IV of Jagd Pz Batt 5, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. Jagdpanzer IVs of 5th SS Panzer Panzerjager battalion Wiking employed east of Warsaw to halt the Soviet attempts to break into the besieged ......
	The Balabonowka Pocket, Ukraine, 25th-30th January 1944 by David Pentland. (P) Price : £420.00	Mountain troops and Panther tanks of Heavy Tank Regiment Bake, push towards Oratrow to complete the encirclement of several Red Army Corps. ......
	The Road to Tscherkassy, Medwin, Ukraine, 3rd-9th February 1943 by David Pentland. (P) Price : £480.00	Mountain troops riding on Panther tanks of 2nd Battalion 23rd Panzer Regiment, Heavy Tank Regiment Bake in a successful attempt to outflank major soviet forces blocking the route to Tscherkassy. While the Tiger battalion launched a frontal attack on......

	Race to Frankowka, Ukraine, 10th February 1944 by David Pentland. (P) Price : £400.00	Panthers of 2nd Battalion 23rd Panzer Regiment, Heavy Tank Regiment Bake led by captured T34s race to capture a vital bridge at Frankowka across the Gniloi Tilitsch. The daring coup de main was successful bringing the relief column one step closer t......
	Holding Hosszupaly, Hungary, 17th October 1944 by David Pentland. (P) SOLD OUT	With a mixed unit of 4 Panthers, 1 anti tank gun, and 25 men from Feldersatz Battalion 128 Hauptmann Gerhard Fischer held the important village for a full day against overwhelming Soviet attacks before being ordered to retreat. ......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Panther Stellung, Monte Cassino, Italy, 21st -22nd May 1944 by David Pentland. (P) SOLD OUT	While commanding an emplaced Panther tank turret east of Piedimonte, the young Gefreiter Herbert Fries, from 2./FschPzJagAbt 1, slowed down the Allies who were trying to outflank what was left of 1FJD. In two days he and his crew knocked out 17 enem......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Jagdverbande Mitte, Pomerania, Germany, March 1945 by David Pentland. (P) Price : £580.00	In early 1945 Obersturmfuhrer Walter Girg was given command of a small unit of SS commandos whose task was to operate Russian tanks behind enemy lines. One such mission took him to the area of the enemy-encircled Kolberg garrison. The German forces ......
	Hornisse, Central Russia, November 1943 by David Pentland. (P) SOLD OUT	Hornet self propelled 88mm anti-tank guns of Heavy Anti-tank Battalion 519 attached to 3rd Army, Army Group Center. Oberleutnant Erwin Kressmann commanded 1st company, while its 1st platoon was led by the soon to be famous Lt Albert Ernst, who in an......	NOT AVAILABLE

	Lull in the Battle, Central Russia, December 1943 by David Pentland. (P) SOLD OUT	Hornet self propelled 88mm anti-tank guns of Heavy Anti-tank Battalion 519 attached to 3rd Army, Army Group Center. Oberleutnant Erwin Kressmann commanded 1st company, while 1st platoon was led by the soon to be famous Lt Albert Ernst, who in an eng......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Winter Offensive, Ardennes Forest, Germany, December 1944 by David Pentland. (P) SOLD OUT	Jagdpanther self propelled 88mm anti-tank guns of Heavy Anti-tank Battalion 519 attached to 6th SS Panzer Army during the ill fated Ardennes offensive. Only the 1st company commanded by Hautmann Erwin Kressmann took part in the campaign. ......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Jagdpanthers in the Ardennes, Ardennes Forest, Germany, December 1944 by David Pentland. (P) SOLD OUT	Jagdpanther self propelled 88mm anti-tank guns of Heavy Anti-tank Battalion 519 attached to 6th SS Panzer Army during the ill fated Ardennes offensive. Only the 1st company commanded by Hauptmann Erwin Kressmann took part in the campaign. ......	NOT AVAILABLE

Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Gerhard Fischer (deceased)

	Gerhard Fischer Signature Pack. Pack Price : £400.00 Saving : £285	...... Titles in this pack : Taming the Tiger by Geoff Lea. (B) Tiger I of the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division, Poland 1944 by Randall Wilson. (B) Rommel in Normandy, France, 2nd July 1944 by David Pentland. (B) Operation Winter Tempest by David Pentland. (B)
	Massive Discount Russian Front Tank Print Pack. Pack Price : £460.00 Saving : £440	Military Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Kursk - Clash of Steel by Nicolas Trudgian. (F) Operation Zitadelle by David Pentland. (C) Clash of Steel, Prokhorovka, Kursk, 12th July 1943 by David Pentland. Battle on the Volga, Stalingrad, Southern Russia, 30th September 1942 by David Pentland. Alfred Rubbel at Kursk by David Pentland. The Battle for Ponyri Station, Kursk, 9th July 1943 by David Pentland. (D)
	Battle of Kursk Military Art Print Pack. Pack Price : £330.00 Saving : £330	Military Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Kursk - Clash of Steel by Nicolas Trudgian. (F) Operation Zitadelle by David Pentland. (C) Alfred Rubbel at Kursk by David Pentland. The Battle for Ponyri Station, Kursk, 9th July 1943 by David Pentland. (D)
	Kursk Trudgian Print - HALF PRICE with three FREE prints! Pack Price : £290.00 Saving : £260	Military Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Kursk - Clash of Steel by Nicolas Trudgian. (F) The Battle for Ponyri Station, Kursk, 9th July 1943 by David Pentland. (D) Alfred Rubbel at Kursk by David Pentland. Focke-Wulf Fw190A-5/U8 by Ivan Berryman.
	Nicolas Trudgian Battle of Kursk Print with THREE FREE PRINTS. Pack Price : £330.00 Saving : £250	Military Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Kursk - Clash of Steel by Nicolas Trudgian. (F) Zwieroboj - Animal Hunters - Ponyri Station, Kursk, 7th July 1943 by David Pentland. (D) The Battle for Ponyri Station, Kursk, 9th July 1943 by David Pentland. (D) Alfred Rubbel at Kursk by David Pentland.

	Pack 768. Pack of two German tank prints by David Pentland, signed by Knights Cross winners. Pack Price : £220.00 Saving : £100	Military Print Pack....... Titles in this pack : Kerscher's Defence of Neuhauser Forest by David Pentland. (B) Barkmann's Corner by David Pentland. (C)
	Pack 769. Pack of two Knights Cross signed German tanks prints by David Pentland. Pack Price : £220.00 Saving : £100	Military Print Pack....... Titles in this pack : Kerscher's Defence of Neuhauser Forest by David Pentland. (F) Barkmann's Corner by David Pentland. (B)
	Pack 771. Pack of two David Pentland tGerman ank prints. Pack Price : £230.00 Saving : £110	Military Print Pack....... Titles in this pack : Rommel in Normandy, France, 2nd July 1944 by David Pentland. (B) Panther at the Zoo, Tiergarten, Berlin, 2nd May 1945 by David Pentland. (D)
	Pack 775. Pack of two WW2 German signed tank prints by David Pentland. Pack Price : £220.00 Saving : £110	Military Print Pack....... Titles in this pack : Kampfgruppe Peiper by David Pentland. (B) Prepare to Ram, Operation Goodwood, normandy, 18th July 1944 by David Pentland. (C)
	Pack 848. Pack of two special tank artworks by David Pentland and Richard Taylor. Pack : SOLD OUT	Military Print Pack....... Titles in this pack : High Pursuit by Ivan Berryman. (C) In Them We Trust by Ivan Berryman. (D)	NOT AVAILABLE

	Pack 849. Pack of two WW2 tank artworks by Richard Taylor and David Pentland. Pack : SOLD OUT	Military Print Pack....... Titles in this pack : High Pursuit by Ivan Berryman. (C) In Them We Trust by Ivan Berryman. (D)	NOT AVAILABLE
	Gerhard Fischer Signature Tank Prints by Geoff Lea and Randall Wilson. Pack Price : £240.00 Saving : £115	...... Titles in this pack : Taming the Tiger by Geoff Lea. (B) Tiger I of the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division, Poland 1944 by Randall Wilson. (B)
	Tank Commander Signed Prints by David Pentland. Pack Price : £200.00 Saving : £130	...... Titles in this pack : Rommel in Normandy, France, 2nd July 1944 by David Pentland. (B) Operation Winter Tempest by David Pentland. (B)
	5th SS Panzer Division Jagdpanzer Tank Prints. Pack Price : £125.00 Saving : £35	With signature of Gerhard Fischer. ...... Titles in this pack : Lying in Wait by David Pentland. Holding the Vistula by David Pentland.
	Tank Crew Signed Defence of Berlin Military Prints by David Pentland. Pack Price : £205.00 Saving : £20	Military Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Defence of the Reichstag, Berlin, 1st May 1945 by David Pentland. (B) Escape from Berlin. Germany 3.00 a.m, 2nd May 1945 by David Pentland.

	Crew Signed Normandy Tiger Tank Prints by Richard Taylor and Nicolas Trudgian. Pack Price : £355.00 Saving : £145	Military Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Tiger! Tiger! by Nicolas Trudgian. Tigers in Normandy by Nicolas Trudgian. (D)
	Tiger Tank Art by David Pentland. Pack Price : £220.00 Saving : £120	Military Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. (C) Tiger at the Gate, Berlin, 30th April 1945 by David Pentland. (B)

Gerhard Fischer (deceased)

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