Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters passed away on April 21, 2015 at the age of 95.  Radley-Walters was best known for having been a Canadian Army tank commander during the Normandy campaign in 1944.  As part of the 27th Armoured Regiment of the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade, he is credited by some sources with 18 tank kills.  Most famously, Radley-Walters may have been responsible for the destruction of the Tiger tank commanded by German tank ace Michael Wittman at the Battle of Villers-Bocage.  While British tank gunner Joe Ekins is generally credited with destroying Wittman’s Tiger, a line of reasoning has been advanced suggesting that Radley-Walters unit was responsible for defeating Wittman.

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