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M4A2 "SHERMAN" TANK
weight 34.5 tons ; crew 5 ; armour 12 to 75mm ; speed 38 km/hr; armament one 75mm or 76.2mm cannon, one 12.7mm machine gun, and two 7.62mm machine guns
In August or September 1942 the Romanian 4th Infantry Division is reported to have annihilated a Soviet division at Kotelnikovo in the northern Caucasus, capturing an assortment of military equipment which was subsequently impressed into service, including no fewer than thirty (!!) M4 Sherman tanks. During World War Two the Soviet Union received thousands of American-built tanks, including over four thousand Shermans, via Lend-Lease aid shipments. Instances of American tanks in Soviet service captured by Romanian troops appear in both Axworthy and Nafziger among others; however, these accounts refer to M3A1 Stuarts and M3A3 Grant/Lees with no mention of Shermans. Indeed, the only such reference appears in the memoirs of Ion Emilian, a Romanian cavalry officer serving with the 2nd Calarasi Regiment during the war (see his "Squadrons of the Apocalypse," originally published in France under the title LES CAVALIERS DE L'APOCALYPSE [Editions de la Pensee moderne, 1974] and later in German as DER PHANTASTISCHE RITT [Schutz, 1977] and Spanish as LOS ESCUADRONES DEL APOCALIPSOS [Juventud, 1977] , especially Chapter 23, for details).