Alfred Rubbel Died : 8 / 8 / 2013

Oberstleutnant Alfred Rubbel (deceased) Alfred Rubbel was born in Tilsit on June 28, 1921, and volunteered for the Wehrmacht at the age of eighteen. After his basic training in the infantry replacement regiment 21 and his transfer to the armoured weapon, Alfred Rubbel began the Russian campaign on 22nd June 1942 in the 9th Panzer Regiment 29 of the 12th Panzer Division. First as a charge guard in the chief battalion, then as a guardsman, he experienced the rapid advance of the Army Group to the east. In the fighting around Leningrad on September 3rd, 1941, wounded by grenade splinters, he was transferred to the homeland. In January 1942 he returned to his unit, he took part in the fighting at the Volkhov. After refreshing and rebuilding his company in Silesia, he returned to Panzer Regiment 4 with the long-handled cannon to the Eastern Front. As an unofficial and tank commander, his path led him on a long Panzer raid to the West Caucasus, where the battles in Eastern Caucasus were connected between September and December 1942. In December 1942, he and his comrades in Putlos and Paderborn began the conversion to Panzer VI Tiger. Went to 503th Panzer Division 503, and set in the railway transport in the direction of Rostov, he took part in the retreat to the Dnieper and the battle for the Kessel of Cherkassy as a Panzer commander at Operation Zitadelle, the largest tank battle of the Second World War. After officers' training courses in Ohrdruf and Krampnitz in December 1944, he moved to the 3rd Panzer Division 503, he fought in the King (Tiger II) in Hungary and Austria. At the end of the war, lieutenant of the reserve Alfred Rubbel can look back on a total balance of 57 tank victories in 79 Panzer battles on 81 deployments in the tank and 41 months on the front. He was awarded the Iron Cross I and II. Rubbel was a close friend of Kurt Knispel, a fellow tank commander of Pz Abt 503 and top-scoring Panzer Ace.

Latest Oberstleutnant Alfred Rubbel (deceased) Signed Artwork Releases !
Pather Tank at the Danube Bridgehead by Jason Askew. (P)	Pather Tank - Fight for Kowel, Poland, March / April 1944 by Jason Askew. (P)	Pather Tanks at Kursk by Jason Askew. (P)	King Tiger 008 - Tribute to Joachim Peiper by Jason Askew. (P)

Items Signed by Oberstleutnant Alfred Rubbel (deceased)

	Tiger on the Prowl by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	The Tiger tank was one of the most fearsome tanks in the German WW2 armoury. With firepower that could destroy most enemies at long range and armour that could withstand all but the closest of attacks, the Tiger is rightfully regarded as one of the......
	Eastern Front Tiger by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	The Tiger tank was one of the most fearsome tanks in the German WW2 armoury. With firepower that could destroy most enemies at long range and armour that could withstand all but the closest of attacks, the Tiger is rightfully regarded as one of the......
	Tiger I by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	The Tiger tank was one of the most fearsome tanks in the German WW2 armoury. With firepower that could destroy most enemies at long range and armour that could withstand all but the closest of attacks, the Tiger is rightfully regarded as one of the......
	King Tiger 008 - Tribute to Joachim Peiper by Jason Askew. (P) SOLD OUT	King Tiger (officially Tiger II) of Joachim Peiper, Schwere SS-PanzerAbteilung 501 (Heavy SS Tank Battalion 501, during the Ardennes Offensive. ......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Pather Tanks at Kursk by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	......

	Pather Tank - Fight for Kowel, Poland, March / April 1944 by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	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......
	Pather Tank at the Danube Bridgehead by Jason Askew. (P) Price : £300.00	Floridsdorf, Vienna, 3th April 1945. By mid April the Soviet assault had almost cleared German resistance from the south bank of the Danube. Only one small bridgehead remained open to allow troops a chance to escape, and this exit was defended by onl......
	Kerscher's Defence of Neuhauser Forest by David Pentland. (C) Price : £130.00	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. (C) Price : £120.00	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......
	Operation Winter Tempest by David Pentland. (XX) Price : £100.00	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 fail......

	Operation Zitadelle by David Pentland. (C) Price : £120.00	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. (C) 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. (D) SOLD OUT	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......	NOT AVAILABLE
	The Falaise Gap, Normandy, 12th - 20th August 1944 by David Pentland. (B) Price : £120.00	After almost two months of continuous fighting in the front line, remnants of the 12th SS Panzer Division, Hitler Jugend, fall back under incessant air attacks by allied fighter bombers for their final battles in France. In their defense of the nort......
	Clash of Steel, Prokhorovka, Kursk, 12th July 1943 by David Pentland. (H) Price : £120.00	The battle for Prokhorovka marked the high water mark of the German southern drive for Kursk. At the apex of the thrust were the 14 tiger tanks of the 13 Heavy Tank Company, 1st SS Panzer Division Liebstandarte, led by Michael Wittman. Their advance......

	Prepare to Ram, Operation Goodwood, Normandy, 18th July 1944 by David Pentland. (APC) Price : £260.00	While probing forward near Cagny on the initial day of the Goodwood offensive, Lt John Gorman, a troop commander of 2nd Armoured Battalion, Irish Guards, suddenly found himself confronted by a Tiger II and three Tiger Is of the elite 503rd Heavy Tan......
	Prepare to Ram, Operation Goodwood, normandy, 18th July 1944 by David Pentland. (D) Price : £120.00	While probing forward near Cagny on the initial day of the Goodwood offensive, Lt John Gorman, a troop commander of 2nd Armoured Battalion, Irish Guards, suddenly found himself confronted by a Tiger II and three Tiger Is of the elite 503rd Heavy Tan......
	Debut at Caumont, Normandy, 30th July 1944 by David Pentland. (B) Price : £120.00	Jagdpanthers of 654 heavy Tank Battalion engage 6th Guards Tank Brigade Churchills. ......
	Strike For Gela, Sicily, 11th June 1943 by David Pentland. (B) Price : £120.00	Tiger I tanks of 2 Kompanie/ Schwere Panzer Abteilung 504, attached to Panzer Division Herman Goring, launch their attack on the main US 7th Army landing beach at Gela, on the first day of Operation Husky. Despite the fact that the Herman Goring tro......
	Finale at Arnhem, Holand, 24th September 1944 by David Pentland. (B) Price : £125.00	In the predawn light the last Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger II (Kingtigers) of 2nd Company 506th Heavy Tank Battalion, drive south across the Arnhem bridge to prepare for the upcoming counter-attack to retake Elst and the Nymegen road bridge. ......

	Tiger at the Gate, Berlin, 30th April 1945 by David Pentland. (D) Price : £170.00	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. (C) Price : £130.00	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......
	Escape to the Elbe, Berlin, 3rd May 1945 by David Pentland. (D) 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. (C) 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. (C) 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. ......

	Tigers in Normandy by Nicolas Trudgian. SOLD OUT	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 ......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Tigers in Normandy by Nicolas Trudgian. (AP) Price : £240.00	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 ......
	Tigers in Normandy by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) Price : £190.00	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 ......
	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 ......
	Tigers in Normandy by Nicolas Trudgian. (Y) SOLD OUT	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 i......	NOT AVAILABLE

	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......
	Opening the Cherkassy Pocket by David Pentland. Price : £55.00	Heavy Tank Regiment Bake, 1st - 21st February 1944. ......
	Opening the Cherkassy Pocket by David Pentland. (AP) Price : £120.00	Heavy Tank Regiment Bake, 1st - 21st February 1944. ......
	Opening the Tscherkassy Pocket by David Pentland. (P) Price : £300.00	Russia, 4th-21st Febuary 1944. Heavy tank regiment - Bake - was temporarily created as part of the forces gathered to breakthrough to the besieged Army Corps trapped in the Korsun (or Tscherkassy) pocket. Led by Oberstleutnant Dr. Bake it consisted......
	Alfred Rubbel at Kursk by David Pentland. Price : £75.00	Panzer commander Alfred Rubbel at the Battle of Kursk, 4th - 12th July 1943. ......

Alfred Rubbel at Kursk by David Pentland. (AP) Price : £120.00

Panzer commander Alfred Rubbel at the Battle of Kursk, 4th - 12th July 1943.......