BRITISH TANKS
IN ACTION ON KHARKOV FRONT. OTHER BRIGADES BEING FORMED. ■ LONDON, May 30. Several brigades of British, and American tanks forming in central Russia will be sent to the front soon, reports the Moscow correspondent of the British United Press. Britishbuilt Valentine and Matilda tanks have already been in action on the Kharkov front and the central front with good results. A visit to “Britanski Tankograd”
(British tank town) which has grown up behind the Russian lines is described by an agency correspondent. This “town,” he says, is composed of row after row of Matildas and Valentines with sturdy Russian tank troops manning them. The correspondent met Colonel Ivan Shapovalov, commander of the Red Army tank brigade equipped exclusively with British tanks. “The period of training,” said Colonel Shapovalov, “has ended and the real business is beginning.” He added: “This is not the first Soviet brigade to be equipped with British tanks, or the last. More British-built armoured fortresses are coming along.” The Berlin radio says that the Red Army is using a four-barrelled ma- < chine-gun firing 5000 rounds a minute against the parachutists.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 3
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