Soviet armor casualties during Operation Barbarossa in the Summer of 1941

0:00 KV-2 heavy tank of the 12th Tank Division of the 8th Mechanized Corps destroyed at the end of June 1941 near Dubno in Ukraine during the Battle of Brody. This level of damage suggests the use of demolition charges to render the vehicle unrecoverable, a task that has been rather definitively accomplished.

0:09 KV-2 heavy tank of the 6th Mechanized Corps knocked out at Ryboły in Poland at the end of June 1941 during the Battle of Białystok–Minsk. One knows that it is a big turret when a ladder is necessary.

0:13 Komintern heavy tractor based on the T-24 medium tank knocked out near a crater that was presumably the result of an aircraft bomb detonation.

0:20 KV-1 heavy tank with an armor piercing shot, presumably from a 37mm gun, that has gone clean through the barrel. The script on the barrel reads "Vernichtet durch: 5. schw. Kradschützen Btl. 29" suggesting it was knocked out by a heavy company of Kradschützen-Bataillon 29, a motorcycle battalion.

0:23 T-28 medium tank with a T-37A amphibious light tank in the background.

0:24 BT-7 cavalry tank and an 85mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K) in the background.

0:26 T-34/76 tank and another BT-7 in the background.

0:28 ZiS-5 truck and KV-1 heavy tank in the background.

0:30 BT-7 with a T-40 light tank and KV-1 in the background.

0:32 STZ-5 artillery tractor.

0:34 Another view of the KV-2 seen at the beginning of the clip, with the damage to the gun barrel suggesting a demolition charge was placed in the barrel.

0:36 BT-7 and Komintern tractor knocked out near a T-35 multi-turreted heavy tank, a veritable land battleship that has captured the attention of German personnel. One of them is seen handing a shell for the main 76.2mm gun, while in four additional turrets there were two 45mm guns and two 7.62mm machine guns.

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