I fought on the T-34. The front -line truth is the winners. Dragkin A.

On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, more than 50,000 T-34 tanks of various modifications fought. No wonder he became the main symbol of victory and, ascended to the pedestal, stands like a monument to liberate throughout Russia and half of Europe. The driver, the commander’s panorama.

“Only I managed to shout:“ The gun to the right! ”, As a blank pierced the armor. The senior lieutenant was torn to pieces, and all the blood from him, divorced pieces of the body... all this is on me! I got a small fragment from the armor, which I then could pull it out, and the fragmenter fell into the shoulder. But the tank still remained on the go, and he, with one hand, switched the speed lever, brought the “thirty-four” from under the fire... ”

“ I decided to counterattack the broken German tanks from the flank. He himself sat in the place of the gunner. The distance to them was four hundred meters, and besides, they went sides to me, and I quickly set fire to two tanks and two self -propelled guns. The gap in our defense was eliminated, the situation was stabilized... ”