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The Russian infantry have the good weapons, there are especially many anti-tank facilities:
sometimes it looks like every infantryman have an anti-tank rifle or an
anti-tank gun. The Russians very skilfully establish these weapons, and it seems like there are no place without ones. |
F.W. von Mellenthin, general of Vermaht |
ATR aces of 6th Guards army, killed 7 tanks each. The names are unknown. |
Pvt. Fyodor G. Startzev - 15 tanks. KIA Jan 1943 Yablonko and Serdyukov together destroyed 22 tanks Jr.sgt. Ostapenko Dmitry Yakovlevich - 13 tanks Sgt. Ivan Derevjanko - 10 tanks Pvt. Ilya Kaplunov (4th Guards rifle regiment) - 9 tanks. KIA 21.12.1942 Pvt. Semen Antipkin - 8 tanks + 1 plane Ivan Knjazev (310th Guards rifle regiment) - 67 AFVs, MGs, guns and mortars... Jr.sgt. Petr Boloto (33rd rifle division) - 8 tanks Sgt. Pavel Bannov (19th tank corps) - 8 tanks [July 1943] Sgt. Saveliy S. Oboldin (32nd mechanised brigade) - 4 tanks and 4 captured tanks + some tens soldiers [23.12.1944] Pvt. Ostapenko Ivan Yakovlevich - 7 (8?) tanks Roman Semyonovich Smischuk - 6 tanks Mast.sgt. Kadi Abakarovich Abakarov (1054th rifle regiment) - 6 tanks Pvt. Blinov (98th Guards rifle division) - 6 tanks Malenkov (95th rifle division) - 6 tanks Pavel Yershov (24th Guards airbone regiment) - 6 tanks. KIA in Jan. 1944. Jr.sgt. Ivan Kondratiev (4th Guards airbone brigade) - 4 tanks + 2 armored cars + 3 cars [13-16.11.43] Pvt. Sabir Ahtyamov (4th Guards motorized brigade) - 4 tanks + 2 APCs + 2 cars [oct. 1944] Pvt. Vasiliy Kovtun (902nd rifle regiment) - 4 tanks + 1 APC + over 20 MGs + some soldiers Pvt. Alexander Logunov (490th rifle regiment) - 5 tanks [oct. 1944] + many soldiers Lt. Áîðèñ Shonin (339th rifle regiment) - 4 tanks, 1 plane, 1 ATG, 28 soldiers [ñåíò.-îêò. 1942]. |
The anti-tank rifleman aims an air target |
Russian PTRS ATR team in Germany, 1945 |
ATR teams, 1944 |
Soviet PTRD antitank rifle |
ATR in combat in Karelia 1942 |
Soviet PTRD anti-tank rifle team |