02-02-2007, 01:27 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Moscow
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 | "RKKA in WWII" site updates for Jan. 2007 Hi! Representing current updates for my site "RKKA in WWII" http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/ Galleries BA-27/BA-27M - 1 photo added "Matilda" - 3 images added Mk IV "Churchill" - 1 photo added Other weapons - 3 images added Captured Axis Vehicles in Soviet Service - NEW Section Maps Topographic maps Moscow, 1931 Western Direction 1941 Positions of the Soviet troops in Kalinin (Tver') vicinities Oct. 14 Operations of the 21st Tank Brigade in Kalinin (Tver') area Oct. 17 Counter-offensive of the Vatutin's operative group in Kalinin (Tver') vicinities Oct. 17-21 Positions of the Soviet troops in Kalinin (Tver') vicinities Dec. 2 Decision of the Kalinin Front command for offensive against Kalinin (Tver') town Dec. 2 Liberation of Kalinin (Tver') Dec. 5-16 Weapons Lend-Lease "Matildas" in Soviet Units Regards, Alex |
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02-02-2007, 01:37 PM
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| Grumpy Old Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Really intersting about the Matilda, Alex. What did the crew do to become "Tank of the four heroes"? Is there any information on that? Where they brand new Matildas sent to Russia or ones we British had used and replaced? |
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02-02-2007, 01:52 PM
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| 'Tank of the four heroes', or 'Coffin for four heroes/brothers'? I believe both terms were used.... 'Thanks for those Alex, Particularly the captured vehicles, they've been a bit of a theme around here (love the 231, never seen that before). Two of the shots have a strange shape covering up the markings, any idea if this is some kind of field recognition sign or, as seems more likely, just a bit of censorship by the photographer? (both pictures look like they're from the same source) I suppose it could even just be camouflage to confuse any enemy onlooker.: PzV_01.jpgStuK40_L48.jpg Cheers, Adam.
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02-02-2007, 02:07 PM
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| I like this one, cross out sign of old owner, chalk on star of new one. http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/g...rderIII_02.jpg Alex, what does the Russian writing say in English, please? |
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 I think it was repaintng to make red star more notable. A table overlapping new insignia might contain identification number drawn by trophy-team Regards, Alex | ||
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02-02-2007, 02:22 PM
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| Road to Berlin Has anybody seen the DVD Road to Berlin? My brother picked it up at a reduction of $39.95 to $5.00. 111 minutes of footage of the Russian Battles and the push to Germany in colour. Facts, figures and the whole box and dice. Very well narrated. Road to Berlin DVD Front.jpg Road to Berlin DVD Back.jpg Fail to understand the push on Churchills quote "this is not the end" on both sides of the cover as it Relates to El Alamein!
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 02-02-2007 at 02:35 PM. |
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02-02-2007, 02:25 PM
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| Look at this one, http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/g.../StuGIV_01.jpg That board is being used again with number on it, maybe to help catologue the photos at HQ? |
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