Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Michael Wittman, during World War II, was the SS Obersturmführer in command of the German 501st SS Heavy Tank Battalion at the time of its June 13, 1944 ambush, of elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, at Villers Bocage, France. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.