![]() ![]() The dense forests on your flanks will channel the Soviet attack through the open, rolling terrain to your front, where your gunner will have a good field of fire. Thus, you are certain that they will attack in force, advancing large numbers of tanks and infantry as a single unit since sending a few vehicles at a time makes them easy targets for your gunner to knock out one by one. Yet the lack of turret combined with the gun’s limited arc of right-left traverse (only 24 degrees) often means that the driver must position the StuG so that it is pointing at a target before the gunner can take it out.Īfter seeing your assault gun destroy the first four tanks, the Soviets now undoubtedly know your strength and disposition. Since the StuG III is fully tracked, it has the speed and cross-country mobility of a tank, but it has no turret and therefore presents a much lower silhouette that is harder for the enemy to hit. The StuG III with its high-velocity 75 mm main gun has proved to be an excellent tank destroyer and it adds “punch” to infantry operations by taking out enemy bunkers and strongpoints. WHAT IS YOUR DECISION, LIEUTENANT BOSTELL? All too soon many more Soviet tanks – undoubtedly accompanied by swarms of Red Army infantrymen – will appear over the crest.Īs you consider what tactical options you can employ to meet the imminent Soviet attack, your driver turns toward you and asks, “Lieutenant, what are your orders?” You can clearly hear the rumbling sound of multiple tank engines on the far side of the hill and can see a black cloud of exhaust fumes rising beyond the high ground. Yet you have little time to celebrate these victories. Then, just as the tank swung its turret to line up its gun on your StuG, your gunner’s second shot scored a direct hit that destroyed the enemy vehicle. Before you could order your driver to a position from which to fire upon the tank, the T-34 suddenly roared out of the low ground and raced toward you at over 30 miles per hour.Īlthough a fast-moving tank is difficult to hit, your superb gunner disabled the T-34 with his first shot, striking it on its right tread. Your gunner took out the first one, but the second tank reached the low ground at the hill’s base, where it was protected from the flat-trajectory direct fire of your StuG’s gun. Within minutes, however, two additional T-34s crested the hill. Your combat-experienced crew (gunner, loader and driver) reacted immediately, quickly knocking out both enemy vehicles. Ten minutes ago, two Soviet T-34 tanks suddenly appeared over the hill to the east. Currently, your StuG III and two infantry squads are defending a position near the town of Modohn in western Latvia. However, since the Soviets’ turning-point victory in the July 1943 Battle of Kursk, the resurgent Red Army has steadily pushed German forces back west. You have been fighting on World War II’s Eastern Front since June 1941, and you were with German units that reached the gates of Moscow in December of that year. German assault guns and crews are part of the infantry branch, not the panzer corps, and their mission is to provide firepower to support infantrymen during an attack or defense. Although the StuG III is a fully tracked armored vehicle mounting a high-velocity 75 mm gun, it does not have a rotating turret and is not a tank. You are German army Lieutenant Wolfgang von Bostell, commander of a Sturmgeschütz III assault gun. Soviet Tanks, 1944: You Take Command Close Rossiya i SSSR voynakh XX veka : poteri vooruzhennykh sil : statisticheskoe issledovanie / pod obshchey redaktsiey G. The same numbers are in Harrison and John Ellis WW2 databook. Igor_verh wrote:According "Big Soviet Encyclopedia": So 1730 tanks USSR had on frontlines, many tanks were in pepair points and in tank schools. Here we can find other information that on Far East USSR had 2124 tanks and spg. Some of them participated in the battle for Moscow in December 1941. The Soviet command concentrated in the Far East in 1941 to more than 20 percent of its land forces, one sixth of the guns and mortars, and almost a third of their number of tanks in the Red Army. From the air, the troops covered the 4540 aircraft. There was a large group of troops, according in the end of 1940 on Far East were 641000 soldiers, 10980 guns and mortars, 6150 tanks. From:Īlso the same information you may find here:īut in 1941 USSR also had waiting attack of Japan from China in the Far East. The Soviet government took steps to organize the production of tanks, as resulting their number in the army increased rapidly: by - 4065, and by November - 6014 tanks. ![]()
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