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FlyingR

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Leopardi said:
Soviet officers inspecting a knocked out Finnish StuG III. The Sturmi's achieved a kill ratio of 10 to 1 during summer 1944 battles, with 8 StuG's lost to at least 87 destroyed Soviet tanks.
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Holy ****...! That's a K/D ratio that anybody would love to have! What a great piece of technology the Stug, and apparently the Finns truly exploited it's potential. Did they use the same doctrine as the Germans?
 
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Aniallator said:
Would be curious to know this... whatever it is it worked xD The fact that many Soviet tank crews were simply poorly trained probably comes into play as well.
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Good crew training and efficient usage of Finnish terrain definitely plays a role. Engagements could happen at really short ranges, for example the Sturmi of Olof Lagus bumped into a T-34 only 15 meters away, and it turned into a world record as he destroyed four T-34's under one minute :D
 
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Imagine the adrenaline, jesus christ xD
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Just like in PR, except we would be in the receiving end! :laugh:

Actually there is quite a good video that many of you might have seen, about the Winter War and more specifically about Motti tactics:


And to stay on topic

Many islanders from Saipan prefer to commit suicide rather than surrendering to the Americans:

 
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Men from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles head towards Juno beach on D-Day. This was my grandfather's regiment, he didn't land on D-Day however, he came about a week later and he was a truck driver.

 
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Results of a "motti", Soviet armoured elements surrounded and destroyed - few still intact and captured. 3rd February 1940.
 
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Fallschirmjäger, with a Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck, crouch behind a knocked out Sherman, one of them peeking out to look at the US positions. Normandy, 1944.

 
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