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To: walkingdead

How many of the Russian tanks were lend-lease American tanks?


20 posted on 02/10/2021 8:20:05 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Some of the tanks would have been British Mathildas or Valentines. Some would have been American Stuarts and Lee/Grants. The first 75mm gun, diesel powered Sherman’s didn’t arrive in the Soviet Union until the early summer of 1943, so there were probably no American Sherman’s at Kursk.


22 posted on 02/10/2021 10:12:35 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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