Wrecked KV-1 tank, Stalingrad, Russia, Aug 1942, photo 1 of 3

Caption     Wrecked KV-1 tank, Stalingrad, Russia, Aug 1942, photo 1 of 3 ww2dbase
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Identification Code   Bild 169-0441
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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. Anonymous says:
5 Aug 2010 06:56:51 PM

Are those the backs of the projectiles I see stuck in four of the hits on the right side?
2. Commenter identity confirmed Bill says:
21 Dec 2010 06:47:03 PM

Looks like a KV-1, Model 1940 or 1941 armed
w/ a 76.2mm main gun some models had bolt
on, or applique armor on the turret sides
but this KV doesn't have this armor to help break up incoming German anti-tank rounds.

The KV photo shows multiple hits against the
hull and turret at combat ranges, the KV-1
was vulnerable to the 88mm gun, looking at
the photo looks like most of the hits didn't
penetrate the hull, others look like plugs
for fast battlefield repairs.

THEORY

Maybe more than one anti-tank gun knocked out the KV firing at 800 meters didn't stop
it maybe 100 to 75 meters the rounds would
still bounce off get in close 60 meters with
special-purpose rounds (Pzgr 40).

THE RUSSIAN BEAR, IS BUILT TOUGH

Could it have happened? may, maybe not this is just my theory. Remember 37mm rounds would
bounce off KV tanks 50 and 75mm would also
fail to knock it out.
The Germans learned the only way the KV could
be stopped was to hit the sides, rear or to
disable the track. One KV was hit over 70
times, and kept on coming.
In the above photo the KV looks like the
turret and hull were pock-marked by multiple
hits. The only German guns effective against
the KV, was the 88mm or a 105mm Howitzer.

Ends my comment on photograph number 1
3. Anonymous says:
5 Nov 2019 07:47:43 PM

This is just a teen-age tank, its surface will clear up... Jokes aside hopefully the tank was disabled and crew lived to fight another day.

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