But, as a spanish officer replied: "When a german driver take a tank and drived in the same circunstances, he broke one, too. Von Thoma and the german staff officers who were training spanish crews in the other side also complained about the number of gear-changes his pupils were breaking in the battleground. It is of note that: the training center at Archena, in Murcia, was a former spa hotel. Archene became the main training and technical center for the Republican tank force for much of the war. The Soviet government did not plan to provide crews for the tanks sent to Spain, but rather to train Spanish personnel to operate them. Quote:the Soviet military attaché at the Madrid embassy, Kombrig Vladimir Gorev, had arranged for the creation of a training center near the town of Archene in Mursia, about 90 km. Soviet Tank Operations in the SCW by Steven J. This will of course be appliable to CM2.Ībout soviet tank crew training in the Spanish Civil War you can read parts of this excellent article: It can tell us alot about the experience levels on tank crews during the eastern front campaign, and how it changed over the years. It would be interesting to know much more about this subject. He also said that they had very few training excersises, because of fuel and money shortages, etc. He said that the Russians didnt have proper tank crew training before -43. Writer and author John Erickson spoke of this in an interview on the Discovery Channel. "Achtung Panzer" is a good book talking about German tank development during the mid-war years.īut what about the Ruskies? Did they also realise the need for well trained crews, or did they just put people inside the tanks and hoped for the best? Did they get to drive their tanks in peacetime, or didnt they get the fuel for that? Heinz Guderian worked hard for this during the mid-war years. It seems as though they realised early that tank crews needed extensive training. We have all heard about the excellent German tank crew training and the follwing quality of the German crews. As a former tanker on a Leopard 1 tank I am very interested in the different tank crew training programmes for the Germans and the Russians during WW2? What kind of changes where made to the training programmes over the years? How often where larger training manouvers held to improve the experience with larger mechanized formations? Have there been any books written on the subject?
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