The 119th Tank Brigade writes: "August 18th, 1942. In battle on August 16th, Lieutenant Suharkov's tank, fighting near the enemy positions in Galahovo, grabbed a 37 mm gun, tied it to the tank using his coat, and towed it back to our infantry's positions. Along with the gun, the crew retrieved a case of 37 mm shells."
Kriegstagebuch 1/58: "...enemy tanks freely cross our positions and move among them. Our infantry witnessed as enemy tankers took three MG34 machine guns, one light mortar, and even towed away a 3.7 cm anti-tank gun..."
Good one. Are there any original documents for this?
ReplyDeleteSadly, no, the source I got this one from posts FineReader digitized text instead of just raw scans.
Delete"I'm just gonna take this. Yoink!"
ReplyDeleteIs there any documentation on the tractor factory that cobbled together the Soviet version of the Semple tank and then towed away German guns?
ReplyDeleteThe NI tank? I talk about it here: http://tankarchives.blogspot.ca/2013/05/soviet-tractor-tanks.html
DeleteI don't have any archive docs about it, though.
And historical precedent for my Men of War playstyle is set.
ReplyDeleteAWW YISS.