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To: 17th Miss Regt

But the dogs ran under Russian tanks, like they were trained to do.


47 posted on 07/19/2014 8:18:43 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Guderian wrote of encountering the mine dogs. They ran under German tanks because there were no Russian tanks in the area. After the first few destroyed German tanks the word was passed along and the Germans learned to machine gun the dogs.


61 posted on 07/19/2014 9:07:15 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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