Anti-tank artillery

Anti-tank artillery men

During the attack on the German positions, an anti-tank shell hit in the forehead of T-34 and killed all the crew members except Mikhail Smirnov.
 Smirnov burst with his T-34 into the German positions, crushed three anti-tank guns and destroyed another 30 enemy soldiers and officers from the machine gun.
Picture taken January 17, 1944, in the Leningrad region. 
Mikhail Smirnov was killed in action six months later in Latvia, on July 29, 1944