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Dread Knot · 03-10-09, 10:10 AM

Not well known in the history of WW2 was the uncanny ability of concrete industrial facilities to take a licking and keep on ticking. Probably the best example was the Dzerzhinsky Tractor Works in Stalingrad which despite being bombed by the Luftwaffe, shelled by artillery and sniped at kept producing tanks that moved unpainted off the production line and straight into the battle for Stalingrad. It didn't stop producing tanks until the battle moved into the factory itself.

03-10-09, 10:10 AM	#3
Dread Knot Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,288 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Not well known in the history of WW2 was the uncanny ability of concrete industrial facilities to take a licking and keep on ticking. Probably the best example was the Dzerzhinsky Tractor Works in Stalingrad which despite being bombed by the Luftwaffe, shelled by artillery and sniped at kept producing tanks that moved unpainted off the production line and straight into the battle for Stalingrad. It didn't stop producing tanks until the battle moved into the factory itself.