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US M10 Tank destroyer on the advance into the German frontier city of Aachen.Related content
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Thanks Camilla glad you like it.
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Nice painting. Truly war is hell, death, destruction and suffering. Moving to another track, in my opinion (whatever value it may or may not have) the WW2 US Tank Destroyer forces don't get quite enough love.
And the US's turreted TD's are truly interesting beasts - looks like a tank (mostly), sounds like a tank, smells like a tank, acts like a tank, but it's _not_ a tank.
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I read a book last year about the US TD battalions in WW2 and they did have quite an effect on combating German armoured forces, as well as been used as mobile artillery platforms, especially in fighting in built up areas
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Self-propelled artillery M10 was on the Eastern Front
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As for the Red Army, two self-propelled artillery regiments were equipped with M10 units. The 1239th self-propelled artillery regiment fought as part of the 16th tank corps of the 2nd tank army of the 1st Byelorussian Front. He participated in the liberation of Belarus and Poland.
For example, on July 30, 1944, the regiment advanced from Deblin to support tank units advancing in the direction of Aleksandruva. Together with the regiment, self-propelled guns SU-85 from the 1441st self-propelled artillery regiment were moving. On the way, due to air strikes, several SU-85s were put out of action, but the 1239th self-propelled artillery regiment, whose self-propelled guns had large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns, had no losses. Moreover, the gunner of one of the ACS, a foreman of Lendovsky, fired a Ju 88 bomber with machine gun fire.
Already in August, in battles in the Warsaw area for four days, the self-propelled guns of the 4th battery of the regiment knocked out three tanks (two of which were βpanthersβ) and two enemy armored personnel carriers.
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thanks for sharing that Artem, very interesting info
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Awesome work on this one - and a cool subject as well!
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Thanks Glenn, pleased you like it.
More of this series of historical armour illustrations are here as well :derbz.deviantart.com/gallery/6β¦
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You know what's funny?
A colleague of mine told me jokingly yesterday, that there were plans to build a tank as big as a little castle, that would crush shermans like nuts under his chains.
Turned out he was right: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landship
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Yes I think in desperation someone thought those things would be a good idea, but you have to question how such colossal machines would have managed navigating European city streets designed in medieval times! I think they would have soon ended up stuck in buildings.
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I don't really think it was really desperation and more self-overestimation, like many projects started by the nazis. Even in the last years of the war, they had the idea of having a railway through russia straight to Alaska.
Typical case of megalomania.
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Never mind finding bridges that would support the weight.
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Yes indeed, and Europe has a lot of rivers to cross!
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Cool pic' and gallery!
Check-out mine.
Happy New Year! Β
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