Thread of Soviet Lend-Lease Shermans during WW2. First, an M4A2(76)W and IS-2 in Berlin. 1945.
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M4A2(76)W from the 6th Guards Tank Army in Brno, Czechoslovakia. April 1945.
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M4A2(76)Ws from the 46th Tank Brigade, 7th Mechanized Corps, 6th Guards Tank Army in Vienna, Austria. April 1945.
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M4A2(76)W of the 1st Guards Mechanized Corps, 3rd Ukrainian Front in Vienna. April 1945.
And M3A1 Scout Cars, probably from the corps' 11th Motorcycle Battalion.
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A column of Shermans and ISU-122s in Berlin. The Shermans are from the 219th Tank Brigade, 1st Mechanized Corps, 2nd Guards Tank Army. 1945.
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M4A2(76)W from the 8th Mechanized Corps, 1st Guards Tank Army in Germany. 1945.
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M4A2 of the 63rd Guards Tank Brigade, Separate Coastal Army in Crimea. April 1944.
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M4A2s of the 71st Separate Tank Rgt, 5th Guards Cavalry Corps in Romania. September 1944.
And an M3A1 Scout Car from the corps' 11th Guards Cavalry Division in Hungary. December 1944.
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German M4A2 of the 14. Panzer-Division, originally captured from the Soviet 2nd Baltic Front. Probably in or near the Courland Peninsula. October 1944.
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M4A2(76)W from the 9th Mechanized Corps in Manchuria. August 1945.
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And some M4A2s with some horsies in Poland. 1944.
The Soviets employed tanks in support of horse cavalry during WW2. The 2nd picture is of a British Valentine tank in Soviet service, which despite being an infantry tank ended up being one of the USSR's main cavalry tanks.
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