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Today we dig into the vault to retrieve a 1971 article by noted tank expert Richard Ogorkiewicz on the Swedish IKV91 light tank and its associated vehicles. This article comes from the May-June 1971 issue of Armor. The individual pages can be viewed in the image gallery below or the entire issue can be downloaded here (article starts on page 150 of the PDF)
Digging through old issues of ARMOR magazine, we have found an article from 1984 written by well known historian and tank expert Steven Zaloga titled “Polish Cavalry Against the Panzers.” In this piece, Zaloga seeks to put to bed the long standing myth regarding Polish Cavalry troops conducting brave yet futile charges against German Panzers. As Zaloga puts it:
“Tales of Polish cavalry charges against German tanks during the September 1939 campaign still remain widely believed even amongst serious historians who are otherwise skeptical of similar German propaganda excesses of the period. The subject has been dealt with in extensive detail by Polish military historians, but most of this material is inaccessible to western historians due to the language barrier.”
The article is can be read in the image gallery below (ARMOR is a government publication and not under copyright.) These pages are from the Jan-Feb 1984 issue of ARMOR.
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