From: Nickolay Panov (patio@mail.ru)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 13:42:37 PDT
Jack & Carli Dyer writes:
Nickolay.
I have a source that shows that the 505th Schwer Panzer Abteilung operated in and around Orscha in April of 1943. It is the only Schwer panzer unit that did so, unless someone else has another source showing different. My guess is that it is one of the 20 tanks that belonged to that unit. There are a tremendous number of pictures that survived the war from all of the Schwer units as they were heavily documented in german news. Let us now what kind of markings you find. Especially on the turret.
Nikolay? No offense.....but a celebration about being free from fascism????
Didnt you guys just dump communism?
We are hoping to have a "we dumbed communism celebration here in the United States soon".
Dear Jack & Carli Dyer.
Thank for attention to our work.
The turret is not found out now (I wrote the tank is destroyed by explosion). We not start the dig now. We plan start the dig on middle or end of June. Detain a beginning of works can only the television company which will make film about our work on a Tiger. While, the desire on manufacture of film has stated only one company.
The data written below I have found in the Internet.
12 Mar 44 transferred to Orscha area
13-25 Mar 44 11 Tigers arrive, along with 7 SPW for the new reconaissance platoon
26 May 44 12 Tigers and 1 Bergepanther delivered, 41 on hand
1 Jun 44 1 Tiger delivered, 36 Tigers and 2 PzKpfw IIIs operational
6-17 Jun 44 9 Tigers picked up from PzKpfwInstGrp SØd
24-26 Jun 44 transferred to Bobruisk area, subordinated to 5. Panzer Division
11-12 Jul 44 ordered to Ohrdruf (WK IX) for re-equipment with Tiger IIs, Abteilung claims 128 kills between 26 June and 8 July
I have not understood the end yours e-mail, but I shall try to answer as I has understood.
We shall celebrate a holiday of Freedom from fascism long time. We have won this Victory by the huge price (many millions life of our people). Each fourth citizen Belarus was lost in the period WWII. This holiday - respect to the people, which have rescued the World from a brown plague . Our people have no hatred to the German people. I doubt, our generation is found out the truth about the one by who and as beginnings WWII actually.
As one famous Russian commander has told - war is not completed until last soldier will be buried. For our people (as however and for the German people) WWII is not completed yet. I do not wish to anyone to go through those horrors, which have gone through our fathers and grandfathers, have gone through our mothers and grandmothers. They have gone through five years of a hell. They have not begun war - they have finished it. And they deserve a Holiday, respect and memory of the large feat!
As to "of a red plague", from which we have begun to get rid per 90 years and we continue now. The victory above this "plague" yet is not achieved. But, in this "war" there will be no such victims. It is impossible to name this plague - communism in direct understanding. It is possible to name it bolshevism. If you remember the books Marcs and Engels (probably surnames are written incorrectly), concepts communism and socialism there are written. Socialism - to demand of each man on his abilities to give payment to each man proceeding from results of his work. Communism - to demand of each man on his abilities to give payment to each man proceeding from his needs. Socialism is already constructed in Western Europe and USA. These countries come nearer to communism. We dump, it is more probable than everything, slavish or feudal, which was created by bolsheviks. Our people want to live free. Poorly that we are not able to struggle for freedom with the officials. But our people will learn to do it. And we
do the large steps to this.
One cannot be allowed - recurrences of such war. It is impossible in general to suppose bloodsheds. Speak - war is last argument politics. In our forces to choose such politics, which will be cleverer.
Sorry about my English language. I hope that the part from this will be clear.
Best regards,
Nickolay Panov.
V.Gastinec, 75-86
222310, Molodechno
Republica Belarus
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