What a great story - your Dad was very lucky to survive!!!!!!!!
What unit was he in?
In Glantz's "Companion to Colossus Reborn" the 26th Army is listed as having the 8th Mechanised Corps which consisted of the following Tank and Mechanised units:
The 8MC is noted as being disbanded 30 August 1941 after being formed on 4 June under Lieutenant General D. I. Riabyshev.
Please give us further info on your Dad - it is personal stories like his that bring history to life. I, for one, would love to know how he ends up getting back into combat later in the war.
It is also important to save this information before his generation leaves us - I regret not talking to my grandfather who served in the British Army in WW1. I later found out that he survived both landing at Gallipoli and the first day of the Somme battle. His stories died with him.
It is one of the reasons I now collect Voenni bliet and Krasnoarmeiskaia Knizhka. These books contain plenty of information about servicemen and I am passionate about learning these people's stories.
Simon
What unit was he in?
In Glantz's "Companion to Colossus Reborn" the 26th Army is listed as having the 8th Mechanised Corps which consisted of the following Tank and Mechanised units:
- 12th Tank Division
- 34th tank Division
- 7th Motorised Division
- 2nd Motorcycle Regiment
The 8MC is noted as being disbanded 30 August 1941 after being formed on 4 June under Lieutenant General D. I. Riabyshev.
Please give us further info on your Dad - it is personal stories like his that bring history to life. I, for one, would love to know how he ends up getting back into combat later in the war.
It is also important to save this information before his generation leaves us - I regret not talking to my grandfather who served in the British Army in WW1. I later found out that he survived both landing at Gallipoli and the first day of the Somme battle. His stories died with him.
It is one of the reasons I now collect Voenni bliet and Krasnoarmeiskaia Knizhka. These books contain plenty of information about servicemen and I am passionate about learning these people's stories.
Simon
