Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought and Drove a T-34 and Then Went on a Rampage

Re:Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought and Drove a T-34 and... by old-gregg on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:30PM (#15966204)

> She was then put through a five-month tank training program – unlike male recruits who were given far less time before being sent to the war front (often still unprepared)

I was recently reading an interview with an old Russian tanker who fought on the eastern front in WW2 and indeed, the training was almost symbolic. One thing he said they didn't have proper cannon rounds for training (early 1942) and had to practice using regular rifles inserted into a tank's gun barrel.

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Re:Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought and Drove a T-34 and... by Blackthorn on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:49PM (#15966328)

I do wonder how many of the (massive) number of plane crashes the Allied nations experienced were not due to manufacturing without much concern to safety, but instead the relative lack of training.

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Re:Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought and Drove a T-34 and... by rsynnott on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:54PM (#15966359)

Basically symptoms of the same problem; everything was being done in a huge rush. You’d expect both, really.

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