Название: T-34 vs StuG III: Finland 1944
Автор: Steven J. Zaloga, Richard Chasemore
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Duel 96
ISBN: 978 1472832351
Год издания: 2019
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 81
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 16,6 MB
Featuring specially commissioned artwork and an array of archive photographs, T-34 vs StuG III is the absorbing story of the parts played by Soviet and Finnish armor in the epic battles in Finland during June and July 1944.
In the summer of 1944, the Red Army staged a massive armored assault up the Karelian Isthmus with the intent of eliminating any remaining German and Finnish forces facing the Leningrad region.
Most of the Soviet units sent into Finland were new to the region, moving mainly from the fighting in the Leningrad area. As a result, they had the latest types of Soviet equipment including the new T-34-85 tank. Germany refused to sell the Finns new tanks without a reinforced military alliance, but in 1943 began selling them a few dozen StuG III assault guns. This made the StuG III battalion the most modern and powerful element of the Finnish armored division, and it saw very extensive combat in the June–July summer battles.
