Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Loza has carefully crafted his
World War II experiences with U.S.-provided Sherman tanks into a
highly readable memoir. Between the fall of 1943 and August 1945,
Loza fought in the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and
Austria. He commanded a tank battalion during much of this period
and had three Shermans shot out from under him. Loza's unit
participated in such well-known combat actions as the
Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy Operation, the Jassy-Kishenev Operation, and
the battles for Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. Following the German
surrender, Loza's unit was sent to Mongolia, where it participated
in the arduous trek across the Gobi Desert to attack the Japanese
Kwantung Army in Manchuria.
This is the first available detailed examination of the Red
Army's exploitation of U.S. war materiel during World War II and
one of the first genuine memoirs available from the Russian front.
Loza also provides firsthand testimony on tactical command
decisions, group objectives and how they were accomplished, and
Soviet use of combat equipment and intelligence. Only after the
collapse of the USSR and concomitant relaxing of prohibitions
against publication of materials related to the Lend-Lease Program
there could this account be made available.
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