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nothing like a bit of "overkill"
Paul
According to the the story that´s around... not really...
6.PD was equipped with 35(t) with a 37mm cannon, some 50mm paks and two 88mm were also around...
The tanks couldn´t do more than gently nock on the amour, and it seems like the Luftwaffe didn´t want to deal with "just one tank"... as also the light Paks failed, the first 88 was brought to the place, but was spotted and destroyed...
In an night attack engineers just managed to blow off the left track (which will be quite difficout to reproduce).
The next day ohter Panzers arrived (mainly IIIs and IVs from the first PD, if recall that right), and in a combined attack, with the Panzers distracting the KV, the second 88 was able to score several (persumed) deadly hits...
As Infantry came close, the turret started rotaing again... so they lauched a charge inside, which killed the commander inside (the rest of the crew had left after the tracks was blown of)
I´m not really shure if every detail is correct, but you´ll find the same story (thanks to copy and paste) in almost every thread dealing with the KV-2...
So as you see my research is done, and thanks to the quite unique damage on the tank it´s quite easy to find the reference to make up a scetch like that:
and after finding this site: http://pro-tank.ru/blog/684-operation-barbarossa-tanks-kv-in-fight
I can tell now that it was hit by 5 88mm, 8 50mm shells and a the engieers charges, while first caused 2 penetrations in the turret and one in the barrel...
semms like I´m ready to go
