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28 panfilovtsev) is a 2016 WWII film based on a legend about a group of soldiers – Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen – heroically halting and destroying German tanks headed for Moscow. [3] It is set in the Eastern Front of World War II and covers the 8th Guards Rifle Division operations during the 1941 Battle of Moscow.
The T28 super-heavy tank was an American super-heavy tank/assault gun designed for the United States Army during World War II.It was originally designed to break through German defenses of the Siegfried Line and was later considered as a possible participant in the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland.
On 30 September 1941, the Wehrmacht began its offensive on Moscow.By mid-November, German units were only 100 kilometers away from the USSR's capital. The Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, a formation that consisted mostly of recruits from the Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Republics, commanded by General Ivan Panfilov, was a part of Konstantin Rokossovsky's 16th Army (Western Front).
T-28 Model 1934 (German designation: T-28A) – main production model with the same machine gun turrets, and similar main turret, with the KT-28 76.2 mm gun, as the T-35 heavy tank. During the production minor changes were introduced, such as the addition of a grille above the rear fan in 1935, two hatches replacing the larger one on the turret ...
Company of Heroes is a 2013 American direct-to-video war thriller film directed by Don Michael Paul. [1] The screenplay was co-written by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo. It was loosely based on the video game of the same name. De Meo would later write Company of Heroes 2.
Fury is a 2014 American war film written, directed, and co-produced by David Ayer.It stars Brad Pitt with Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal as members of an American tank crew fighting in Nazi Germany during the final weeks of the European theater of World War II.
The film is based on the real story of the feat of the crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank under the command of Semyon Konovalov, [1] which took part in an unequal battle on 13th July 1942, and destroyed 16 tanks, two armored vehicles and eight other vehicles from enemy forces in the area of the village of Nizhnemityakin , Tarasovsky District, Rostov ...
The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a radial-engine military trainer aircraft manufactured by North American Aviation and used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a counter-insurgency aircraft, primarily during the Vietnam War.