Wednesday 15 May 2013

Yoink!

An interesting episode in a battle for Polunino, next to Rzhev, in August of 1942.

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..."


6 comments:

  1. Good one. Are there any original documents for this?

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    1. Sadly, no, the source I got this one from posts FineReader digitized text instead of just raw scans.

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  2. "I'm just gonna take this. Yoink!"

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  3. Is there any documentation on the tractor factory that cobbled together the Soviet version of the Semple tank and then towed away German guns?

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    1. The NI tank? I talk about it here: http://tankarchives.blogspot.ca/2013/05/soviet-tractor-tanks.html

      I don't have any archive docs about it, though.

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  4. And historical precedent for my Men of War playstyle is set.

    AWW YISS.

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