Soviet Lend-Lease Tanks of World War II
The Red Army suffered such catastrophic losses of armour in the summer of 1941 that they begged Britain and the United States to send tanks. The first batches arrived in late 1941, just in time to take part in the defence of Moscow. The supplies of British tanks encompassed a very wide range of types including the Matilda, Churchill, and Valentine and even a few Tetrarch airborne tanks. American tanks included the M3 (Stuart) light tank and M3 (Lee) medium tank and the M4 Sherman tank, which became so common in 1944-45 that entire Soviet tank corps were equipped with the type. With these Western tanks, the Soviets were finally able to beat ba…
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Weitere Autoren: Morshead, Henry (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4728-1814-0
- EAN: 9781472818140
- Produktnummer: 25411424
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 48 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 32'271 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union. He currently lives in Maryland.
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