Heavy Soviet KV-1 tank hit in the gun mantlet by 7.5cm PaK 40 of 3rd company/PzJgAbt. 3. Soviet Union, 1941.

Hit by 7.5cm PaK 40

Soviet soldiers examine German heavy tank destroyer "Ferdinand" put out of action. The peculiar detail of this photo is SSh-36 steel helmet on the soldier in the foreground. This model was quite rare in 1943.

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Ferdinand Kursk

General Vasily I. Chuikov, commander of Soviet forces on the west bank of the Volga, who spent a large part of the battle living and working in what was little more than a hole in the ground.  Those Reds were really tough ... JR.