BT-7A

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UpdatedMay 9, 2007
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BT-7A 1938 year production. Leningrad area, summer 1941 [3]
BT-7A 1937 year production, Baltic area, summer 1941 [3]

BT-7A of one of mechanised corps of RKKA. South-Western Front, June 1941 [4,5]

 

Rem. AMVAS: This vehicle is used for illustration in many books. In some of them (for example in [5]) I saw it assigned to the 14th Mechanised Corps/Western Front, what is very suspicious.

So, I would recommend to be careful with its exact location until more accurate data are available.

Another reconstruction of the same tank as above [5]

BT-7A of one of Soviet mechanised corps. Ukraine, July 1941 [2]

Rem. AMVAS: Unfortunately it's not clear what original photo was used for this vehicle.

BT-7A organic to one of the units of the Trans-Baikal Military District, summer 1939 [1]
BT-7A "Za Stalina" from the artillery group of the 1st Light Tank Brigade, North-Western Front, Winter War, Feb. 1940 [6]
Another reconstruction of the same tank [7]

BT-7A knocked out by the 4th Pz. Div. [8,9]

 

Rem. AMVAS: Probably could belong to the 14th Mechinised Corps

Reconstruction of this vehicle [9]NEW

Literature
  1. M. Pavlov, I. Zheltov, I. Pavlov., "Tanki BT", Moscow, Exprint, 2001
  2. I. Moshchanskiy, "1941: Taktika Tankovoy Vojny", Voyennaya Letopis'/Military Chronicle, Bronetankovyi Muzei series No. 1, Moscow, 2001
  3. "Tankovye Vojska RKKA vo Vtoroy Mirovoy Vojne. Serijnye Mashiny 1930-45 gg. Chast I. Lyogkiye tanki", Tankomaster, special issue 3-4/2006, Moscow
  4. A. Isaev. "1941: boi na Ukraine", Frontovaya Illyustratsiya/Frontline Illustration, 4/2004, Strategia KM, Moscow
  5. I. Moshchanskiy, I. Khokhlov, "Katastropha Zapadnogo fronta, Belorusskaya strategicheskaya oboronitelnaya operatsiya 22 Ijyunia -9 Ijulia 1941 goda.", Voyennaya Letopis/Military Chronicle No. 1, 2003
  6. BTV No. 2, "Krasnaya Armiya 1920-1941, kamufliazhnye skhemy, opoznavatel'nyje znaki BTT", Moscow, 2004
  7. M. Kolomiets. "Tanki v Zimnei Voine 1939-40", Frontovaya Illyustratsia, 3/2001
  8. R. Michulec, "4. Panzer Division on the Eatern Front. (1) 1941-43", Concord Publication, issue 7025, Hong Kong, 1999
  9. A. Kinski et.al., "4 Panzer Division, 1939-43. Vol. 1", Militaria, #87, Warszawa, 1999
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