6th Guard Russian Tank Corps vs 501st Independant Heavy German Tank Battalion

[TRDG]

In August of 1944 in Poland, near the town of Sandomierz, there was a tank battle between...... For the Russians, there were some of these.... ISU-2 (Stalin) tanks.







Some T-34/76 and T-34/85 Russian tanks and a lonely SU-85 Heavy Assault gun.
Facing these very powerfull tanks were.....

Cheers, to be continued!!

[TRDG]

These interesting cats, very new at the time then as well!! Add in some German half-tracks and you are in for one hell of a fight, it would seem anyways......but, wait til' you see the "battle report" from Poland!!








Cheers, I hope I get some interest on this one......

TRD"R"

[LAH 1 SS]

from memory and if im correct the russian vehicles were all knocked out by two tiger 2 tanks and some other german armour (but dont quote me) by a river the russian column had stopped and was open to attack and in a very weak position due to the in experince of the russian commander. one of the tiger 2 tanks was from memory was operated by karl turk and the other by willi fey before they were reassigned to s SS pz abt 503. hm not sure if im right i might be thinking of another engagement sorry if i am wrong

[TRDG]

Good try, but no, not quite, you might be very surprised, as I was when I first found out about this battle. Thanks for the reply, I can't wait to really get going on this one for you guys!!!


Cheers, to some good times ahead in Poland, depending on which "side" one might be on though......

Tom

[LAH 1 SS]

is this battle near the sandomir bridgehead near oglenduv village

[McCoy]

Is it the battle where the Russians manange to capture three intact Tiger II mit Porsche türm?

[LAH 1 SS]

i have a feeling it was. from records it was actually tigers of 502 battalion ( they were initially the command tigers of 501 battalion) that were engaged in the combat scene 501 battalion was in the area but not at operational strength and all tigers had the henschell turret. there were 8 destoyed king tigers and 3 captured when they became bogged down. one of the captured vehicle was a command vehicle number 502 (originally 002 of 501) and was fully operational the other vehicles were 102 and 234. vehicle 234 was used as parts to keep the other two vehicles going 102 was used for gunnery and armour testing and 502 is the vehicle in the kubinka tank museum. heres some pictures for you guys

heres 502



heres 234



heres 102

[LAH 1 SS]

gee i hope im right or im going to look silly

[TRDG]

You got it guys, but I will go through the battle, with some of the pics you did'nt put up yet.

Cheers, an interesting battle for the Russians, not so much for the Germans as you can see......

Tom

[LAH 1 SS]

looking forward to seeing some pics mate when you post them