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| Subject: | US M2 mediums at Kharkov - Nope |  |
| Date: | May 26, 2001 |
| From: | Kurt Laughlin | |
The new Frontline Illustration book on the Battle of Kharkov has a color
profile (but no photo) of an American M2A1 medium tank with the caption that
it was given to the Soviets under Lend-Lease.
The thing is, I just found an Ordnance Department document dated 8 October
1942 that lists 18 M2 mediums and 94 M2A1 mediums as still in the inventory
in the USA. (They were to be scrapped out, BTW.) By my reckoning, M2
series production was:
T5
T5E1
M2 (18 vehicles)
M2A1 (94 vehicles)
On the good assumption that neither of the T5s would've been exported, it
seems that there weren't any US M2 series medium tanks at the Battle of
Kharkov in May of 1942.
KL |
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