To: C19fan
“very limited combat during Barbarossa due to the tanks breaking down before they could reach the combat zone.”
Well, that would be a bit of a drawback. lol
2 posted on
04/19/2018 9:01:09 AM PDT by
V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN
The Red Army did not train the crews to do mechanical repairs on tanks before the German invasion. So when a tank broke down on the march to the area of operations the crew simply abandoned the vehicle.
4 posted on
04/19/2018 9:03:22 AM PDT by
C19fan
To: V_TWIN; C19fan
“very limited combat during Barbarossa due to the tanks breaking down before they could reach the combat zone.”
Well, that would be a bit of a drawback. lol Not if you'd ever crewed in a Soviet T-26.
26 posted on
04/19/2018 1:10:54 PM PDT by
archy
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