This book is the first professional study of the combat application of Beutepanzer. The collection publication is illustrated by hundreds of exclusive photographs that prove that in reality the Wehrmacht and Waffen -SS used much more Soviet tanks than mentioned in official documents – you can often see a trophy armored vehicle, which is not listed in the combat schedule of German units.
July 14, 1941, Leningrad Front. Around 18.00, our motorized rifle battalion was counterattacked by five enemy tanks, three of which turned out to be captured KV, repainted Germans in dark gray. They were not able to knock them out not only the “forty-cake” and the 76-mm guns, but even the heavy 152 mm howitzers, and our infantry had to retreat …
This was far from the first case of combat use by the Wehrmacht Soviet armored vehicles – Beutepanzer (trophy tanks) participated in the assault on Brest, and the BA -10 armored vehicle under the fascist flag – in the siege of the Brest Fortress. In total in the first weeks …
Author
Dunov Vasily Alexandrovich
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
War and we. Tank collection
Genre
Military equipment
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