Mk IV "Churchill"

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Churchill III Alexander NevskiyChurchill III Alexander Nevskiy Churchill III "Alexander Nevskiy". Conceivably from the 49th Separate Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment. Leningrad Front, Feb. 1944 [1]

Churchill MkIII "Alexandr Nevskiy" [4] NEW

Conceivably from the 49th Separate Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment. Leningrad Front, Feb. 1944 [1]

Churchill IV. The 36th Separate Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment/5th Gds. Tank Army Churchill IV. The 36th Separate Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment/5th Gds. Tank Army. Voronezh Front. Prokhorovka area, July 1943[1] *1
Churchill "Churchill" IV "Za Radnyuansku Ukrainu" ("For Soviet Ukraine"] and KV-1 "Serebryakov" knocked out in the course of Belgorod-Kharkov operation. The 36th Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment/5th Gds. Tank Army. Voronezh Front.[2] *1
Churchill IV

Churchill IV. The 48th Separate Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment. At Kiev approaches, Nov. 1943. Vehicle have name "Za radnyansku Ukrainu" (on Ukrainian language) - "For Native Ukraine" [1]

Rem. AMVAS: This photo is also famous for the Kursk battle Aug. 43

 

This photo in other sources has other placment and date. [Rem. AMVAS]

Churchill "Churchill" IV of the 36th Gds. Heavy Breakthrough Tank Regiment/18th Tank Corps/5th Gds. Tank Army/Voronezh Front. Kharkov direction, August 1943 [2]*1
Churchilles from the 21th Separate Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment

"Churchilles" from the 26th Separate Guards Tank Regiment. Vyborg, June 1944.[1,2]

[Rem. AMVAS - in [1] due to typo this unit was named the 21st Separate Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment.]

The same "Churchill IV" tank as above, but in [3] it was showed as assigned to the 46th Separate Gds. Heavy Breakthrough Tank Regiment. Vyborg, June 1944.
Churchilles III from the 48th Separate Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment Churchilles III from the 48th Separate Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment. Kiev, Nov. 1943. [1]
Churchill "Chucrchill" IV tank of the 10th Gds. Heavy Breakthrough Tank Regiment/23rd Tank Corps/1st Tank Army/Voronezh Front abandoned after unseccessfull attack against German defensive positions. July 27,1943 [2] *2
Churchill "Churchill" IV from the column "Za Radnyansku Ukrainu" ["For Native Ukraine"] shot down by German artillery. The 36th Gds. Heavy Breakthrough Tank Regiment/18th Tank Corps/5th Gds. Tank Army/Voronezh Front. August 1943 [5] *1

 

*1 - Official name of this regiment by BSSA book in mentioned time period: The 36th Gds. Tank Regiment [AMVAS];

*2 - On July 1 - August 1 the 23rd Tank Corps was on the South-Western Front. The 10th Gds. Separate Tank Regiment was directly subordinated to the South-Western Front HQ. This regiment may be for too small time period on frontline, though to be included in monthly BSSA lists. [AMVAS]


Literature
  1. M. Baryatinskiy, "Pekhotniy tank "Churchill"", Bronekollektsia,6/2003;
  2. M. Kolomiets, I. Moshchanskiy, "Tanki Lend-Liza", Exprint, 2000;
  3. I. Moshchansky, "Shturm Karel'skogo vala", Vyborsko-Petrozavodskaya strategicheskaya nastupatel'naya operatsiya 10 ijyunia - 9 avgusta 1944 goda", Voyennaya Letopis'/Military Chronicle, 5/2005
  4. S.J. Zaloga, J. Grandsen, "The Eastern Front. Armour Caomuflage and Markings 1941 to 1945",

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