TY  - GEN
T1  - Commanding the Red Army's Sherman tanks : the World War II memoirs of Hero of the Soviet Union, Dmitriy Loza
A1  - Loza, D. F. (Dmitriĭ Fedorovich)
A2  - Gebhardt, James F., 1948-
LA  - English
LA  - Russian
PP  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm45731395
AB  - Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Loza has carefully crafted his World War II experiences with U.S.-provided Sherman tanks into a highly readable memoir. Between the fall of 1943 and August 1945, Loza fought in the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. He commanded a tank battalion during much of this period and had three Shermans shot out from under him. Loza's unit participated in such well-known combat actions as the Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy Operation, the Jassy-Kishenev Operation, and the battles for Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. Following the German surrender, Loza's unit was sent to Mongolia, where it participated in the arduous trek across the Gobi Desert to attack the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria. This is the first available detailed examination of the Red Army's exploitation of U.S. war materiel during World War II and one of the first genuine memoirs available from the Russian front. Loza also provides firsthand testimony on tactical command decisions, group objectives and how they were accomplished, and Soviet use of combat equipment and intelligence. Only after the collapse of the USSR and concomitant relaxing of prohibitions against publication of materials related to the Lend-Lease Program there could this account be made available.
OP  - 173
NO  - Based on unpublished ms. Skaz o tankakh "Sherman."
CN  - D793 .L68 1997eb
SN  - 0585310580
SN  - 9780585310589
SN  - 0803229208
SN  - 9780803229204
KW  - Loza, D. F. : (Dmitriĭ Fedorovich)
KW  - Soviet Union. : Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡a : Biography.
KW  - Soviet Union. : Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡a
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Tank warfare.
KW  - Sherman tank.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Personal narratives, Russian.
KW  - Soldiers : Soviet Union : Biography.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 : Guerre des blindés.
KW  - Sherman (Char d'assaut)
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Historical.
KW  - HISTORY : Military : World War II.
KW  - Sherman tank
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Tank warfare
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History - General.
KW  - History & Archaeology.
KW  - Soldiers : Soviet Union : Biography
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Personal narratives, Soviet
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Tank warfare
KW  - 1939 - 1945
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Personal narratives : Russian
ER  -