Tiger II is the name by which a German heavy tank of World War II is usually known, whose last official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B ('Tiger variant B armored fighting vehicle'), often abbreviated to Tiger B.5 The German military vehicle inventory designation for this tank was Sd.Kfz. 182.5 It was also known in German by the informal name Königstiger5 (the German name for the Bengal tiger), often translated literally by American soldiers6 as King Tiger ('tiger king')