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“Nails should be made of these people. There wouldn’t be harder nails in the whole World.” The monument to nineteen-year-old Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy bunker with his chest on February 27, 1943. “During the Great Patriotic War, more than 250 military...

Ax wielding Maniac Charged & Captured a German Tank & its Crew. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/ivan-pavlovich-soviet-soldier.html Ivan Sereda the cook of the 91st Tank Regiment, (46th Tank Division, 21st Mechanized Corps, North-Western Front)...

Meet the “Night Witches”, the Daring Female Pilots Who Bombed Nazis By Night https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAKETovlLbw&frags=pl%2Cwn “Night Witches” (German: die Nachthexen...

Alexei Alikantsev During the Battle of the Stalingrad the Alykantsev screw of the 45-mm anti-tank gun burned 12 German panzers in one battle. During the Battle of the Stalingrad, Senior sergeant Aleksey Trofimovich Alykantsev was the commander of the 45-mm anti-tank gun 1392th infantry...

Unequal tank duels. T-70 against "Panther" Grigory Ivanovich Pegov in 1984 He was drafted into the Red Army in 1939. In 1943, he graduated from the Stalingrad Tank School, after which he was awarded the rank of junior lieutenant. After school, he was sent as the commander of a tank...

WWII veterans from the United States will come to Russia on the Victory Day. “I thought that it is necessary to draw attention to the Eastern Front and to sponsor the trip to Russia of several surviving World War II veterans from the United States to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end...

Senior Lieutenant Mikhail Petrovich Kuchenkov Commander of the SU-85 (the 4th battery), Mikhail Kuchenkov. Battle score - 32 destroyed German tanks. From the award sheet: “Working as the platoon commander SU-85 (4th battery), Mikhail Kuchenkov skillfully drove and maneuvered his...

Grigory Nikolaevich Naydin Naydin Grigory Nikolaevich https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Найдин,_Григорий_Николаевич A single BT-7 destroyed 15 German panzers in one day. НАЙДИН Григорий Николаевич, сержант, (18.11.1917 - 10.12.1977) ★ 5 тд, 103 отб БТ-7 15 побед. Из них 12 -...

CHESAK Grigory Sergeevich Grigory Sergeevich Chesak (1922-1987) - commander of the T-34 tank of the 1st battalion of the 61st Guards Sverdlovsk Tank Brigade The fight occurred on 8 March 1944 near Kamenetz-Podolsk. The T-34/76 of Lieutenant Chesack was ambushed at a crossroads on the...

Kolya Sirotinin. In the summer of 1941, the 4th Panzer Division broke through to the Belarusian town of Krichev - one of the divisions of the 2nd Panzer Group of Heinz Guderian. That day it was necessary to cover the withdrawal of troops. “Two people with a gun will stay here,” the...

Here is the real story how the Russian soldiers, the conscripts who serve 1 year only stopped the Chechen militants at the height 776 at the cost of them life on March 1, 2000. Can you, “The Military Workshop” or anyone else give at least one example when the Western soldiers who are vastly...

Tank E.J. Scofield Model 1942 of the Year (New Zealand) In 1940, New Zealand engineers led by an American specialist E.J. Scofield began work on a wheeled-tracked tank. By the end of the year, a prototype was built, which later took part in the trials. The trials allowed them to identify...

The Battle of Raseiniai, 1941, where a single KV tank stopped an entire German Kampfgruppe The 6 tankers in the KV-2 heavy tank against the battle group of the 6th Panzer under Colonel Erhard Raus with the following: II Tank Regiment I / 4th Motorized Regiment II / 76th artillery regiment...

Tank ace Kurt Knispel. Battle score and big questions The famous portrait of Kurt Knispel, made by A. Rubbel in 1942. “Panzer Aces of the Second World War.”Franz Kurowski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_KurowskiCombat score Battle score. According to F. Kurowski Kurt...

Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya In 1941, the husband of the russian nurse Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya was killed fighting the invader forces of the Third Reich. Instead of just mourning his death, she sold everything she had and wrote to Stalin: “I’m depositing all my savings to the...

The Simon Wiesenthal Center was established in the United States in 1977. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Wiesenthal_Center The Center does not longer engaged in tracing criminals as much as use to and now it more engaged in human rights and information activities. However, one of the...

Vladimir Petrovich Khazov. 460751 https://www.prlib.ru/en/node/460751 On June 15, 1942, senior lieutenant Vladimir Khazov received an order to stop a German panzer column advancing to the Olkhovatka village. There was no time to plan the operation and Khazov's platoon, consisting three...

Dmitry Lavrinenko. Дмитрий Фёдорович Лавриненко https://www.rbth.com/history/328220-who-was-best-tank-ace Soviet tank commander Dmitry Lavrinenko was given only several months to prove that he was the best Allied tank ace of WWII with 52 victories. With such amazing effectiveness he would...

Zinoviy Grigor'evich Kolobanov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviy_Kolobanov On 20th August 1941 during the Leningrad battle within a hour the crew of the senior lieutenant Z.G. Kolobanova destroyed 22 German tanks. The crew of the senior lieutenant Z.G. Kolobanova. On August 19...

Gudz Pavel_Danilovich Гудзь Павел_Данилович https://en.topwar.ru/165493-pavel-gudz-odin-kv-protiv-18-tankov-protivnika.html Lieutenant Gudz on his KV-1 tank moves to Red Square to participate in the Parade on November 7, 1941. The Battle of Moscow. 1941, November, the village of...