Identify

help me in identifying these pictures, the more info the better 


1. Tiger & Pz IV?


2. same as 1. ?


3. Tiger ?


4. Pz IV commander?


5. same as 4.?

I would say late model panzer IVs Ausf H or J for the majority of the pictures.
The Tiger also appears to be a late model so 1944 and onward.
But I could be wrong, very wrong. Isn't confidence great.
What are we saying the Tiger number is 22?

edit:
Picure 4 is definitely a Panzer IV commander

"221" looks the part, but it coud be anything.

Tiger model can't be nailed down exactly, but most likely a 1944 model - that doesn't help us, though, since the TIges had about as many details changed during porduction sa all other German tanks.

Well I think I can answer part of this.

These pictures are of Unternehmen "Hubertus", the Tiger is Number 221 of Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 501, the date the pictures were taken is March 1944 and by all accounts they are around Wospinzy (about 45km South East of Vitebsk) in support of a counter attack by the  256th Infanterie-Division and the Pz-IVs of the 20th Panzer Division.

Unfortunately I can't provide a complete source for this as there seems to be confusion over the operation names but the majority came from Tigers in Combat Vol I by Wolfgang Schneider.

Anyway I wont guarantee the information but I hope it is a starting point for people with more resources than myself.

I would not call this one "Identified" yet as there are some problems with my information.

For Example:
In the history of Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 501 it is referred to as Operation Hubertus (Nov 1942, Stalingrad) and in other sources Operation Humboldt (Greece)  neither of which took place in 1944.

So my "guess" was that this was a scratch formation more along the lines of a Kampfgruppe than an Operation.

Nothing on both operations in Sledgehammer.
I am pretty sure though I saw this picture before.
An individual tiger means nothing.
It can be the last remaining servicable vehicle of a company in support of a regular pz division.
Keep in mind these units were independable, accept for the 3rd SS which had an organic company of tigers.

True, but not quite. The few Tiger units that were around had very distinctive markings and number style so one can actually track a Tiger down by number style alone if need be. Ichecked my Tiger books and it indeed seems as if the above was a Tiger of sPzAbt501 during winter 1943/1944 (a dedicated Tiger website seems to confirm that assumption).
That'd place the above scenes around Witebsk during December 1943.



Correct, but the numbering was completely different - in the early years it was a "Sxx" code and later it was a "9xx". "Totenkopf" did never have Tigers numbered "22x" during its lifetime.

Hm. Well, it doesn't matter all that much if ti was December 1943 or January 1944 - we have nailed it down to a specific date and a specific place so we're all happy. I agree it's rather January than December, though.