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48 - Fallen Giants: The Russian T-35 Tank

48 - Fallen Giants: The Russian T-35 Tank

FromThe WW2 Podcast


48 - Fallen Giants: The Russian T-35 Tank

FromThe WW2 Podcast

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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Aug 1, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode I’m looking at the giant soviet T-35 tank with Francis Pulham. As you will discover the T-35 was a peculiar vehicle with five turrets, very few were ever produced and almost all were knocked out very early in the war. Francis is the author of Fallen Giants, The Combat Debut of the T-35a tank. "The T-35 was a Soviet multi-turreted heavy tank of the interwar period and early Second World War that saw limited production and service with the Red Army. It was the only five-turreted heavy tank in the world to reach production, but proved to be slow and mechanically unreliable. Most of the T-35 tanks still operational at the time of Operation Barbarossa were lost due to mechanical failure rather than enemy action. Outwardly, it was large; but internally, the spaces were cramped with the fighting compartments separated from each other. Some of the turrets obscured the entrance hatches." wikipedia
Released:
Aug 1, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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A military history podcast that looks at all aspects of WWII. With WW2 slipping from living memory I aim to look at different historical aspects of the Second World War.