Tank Repair and the Red Army in World War II

Behind every successful armored force in World War II was an effective tank repair organization. Historians and readers have long focused on heroic battles and minute comparisons of each side's tanks, but without maintenance even the most skillfully-led tank division could not have advanced ver...

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Published in:The Journal of Slavic military studies 2012-07, Vol.25 (3), p.381-392
Main Author: Dickson, Gary A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Armored vehicles
Army
Automobile repair
Division
Historians
Maintenance
Military
Military regimes
Military service
Readers
Red Army Faction
Repair
Tanks
Weapons
World War II
World War Two
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Summary:Behind every successful armored force in World War II was an effective tank repair organization. Historians and readers have long focused on heroic battles and minute comparisons of each side's tanks, but without maintenance even the most skillfully-led tank division could not have advanced very far. Here for the first time in English is an analysis of the Red Army's tank repair capability and its significance to the final victory.
ISSN:1351-8046
1556-3006
DOI:10.1080/13518046.2012.705650