panzerace.net

A few words of thanks

I started up this site way back in 1998 when it was a small and rather obscure area of a personal website, a five-page section dedicated to Michael Wittmann's exploits at Villers-Bocage. Constructive comments and additional material led me to launch the site as a separate entity in late 2000, and since then it has grown at a rapid rate. Over the years panzerace.net has been gradually transformed from a pet project into an historical resource that has received praise from the highest quarters. This rapid growth could only have been achieved through the help I have received from a number of people, and without wanting to indulge in an Oscars-style speech I felt it only right that I should thank everyone properly.

• My girlfriend Caroline, for going through the English-language version of the site and picking out all of the errant typos. I will no doubt persuade her to work on the French translation of the site, but I guess I'll have to finish her site first!
• Herr Peter Podlewski, who has put aside plenty of his free (and given the amount of work, I'd guess a lot of not so free) time in translating the Michael Wittmann biography into German with a dedication and passion that surpassed even my own.
• Mike Hicks from PanzerMuseum.com for allowing me to make use of the collection of Michael Wittmann-related documents he has compiled.
• Bill Kiesselbach for allowing me to publish on the site his excellent and moving tribute to his uncle and Michael Wittmann's one-time commander, Heinz von Westernhagen.

I would also like to thank all of those other people who have helped the site get to where it is today, among them Martin Pring, whose enthusiasm drives the fledgling panzerace.net forum; Pat Bunch, for his contributing an informative and interesting article on Michael Wittmann at Prokhorovka; Jody Harmon, for sending me one his fine prints of Wittmann's Tiger in action; last but not least, the site's visitors and contributors, without whom the site would not be where it is today.