LAND BATTLESHIP
RUSSIA’S NEW MAMMOTH TANK GERMANS MUCH IMPRESSED. PUBLICATION OF DETAILS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, May 20. A message from Berlin states that the German public is greatly impressed by details of the Russian 52-ton tank, particulars of which are revealed in the Press. It is stated that a single tank would fill the ground floor of a small house, the gun turret reaching to the second storey. The length of the tank is 23 feet, its height ten feet and its breadth eleven feet. The thickness of the forward armour is four inches and of the side armour three inches. The tank carries a six-inch gun and attains a maximum speed of sixteen miles an hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 4
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124LAND BATTLESHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 4
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