Translated info about the "destroyed tank" picture (from Suomalainen Korpisoturi -book):
Maybe the most published AT-picture of our countrys war history: smoking remains of a long barreled Sotka (nickname for T-34), taken on the last day of June, 1944. This T-34/76 D -version was meant to be a commanding tank, it had a characteristic hexagonal turret. Painted on the side was a number 450.
Presumably a shot from a german assault gun hit the lower part of the tank, rendering it immobile. Alikersantti Matti Huppunen fired a shot with panzerfaust, and the shot completed the destruction of the tank: the shot tore off the turret which hurled away from the main body of the tank. The commander of the tank must´ve been located in the upper part of the turret, otherwise he wouldn´t have been able to escape from the tank in between the two shots.
Finnish troops, carrying panzerfausts, examine the destruction: the men are from II/JR 12, Kersantti Kalle Niemelä (left) and Heino Nikulassi (died during the next day in Ihantala hill). On the farmost left side of the picture, is a panzergrenadier Eino Heikkilä from regiments artillerycompany. SA-picture (meaning Finnish army).
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