The Third Battle of Dubno : A Soviet Perspective

The third battle of Dubno ends with a night engagement. At first parties of grenadiers try to penetrate into the town but pushed back thanks to the cannister fire from the T34s of medium tank bn. In the meantime, McEwan's second column has difficulty when they encounter that appear to be a mixed density minefield in the sunken gulley in the center that was previously the site of skirmishes between two forces.

Moments later, McEwan's tanks emerge out of the darkness and run into the mixed mountain bn's men near the edge of the town. The Panthers with their close-in defense grenade throwers inflicted serious casualties on the defenders. However, once more thanx to the decisive action by the medium tank bn. at least one panther was KO'ed by close range AT fire. It is apparent that the frontal armor of the panther can not be penetrated by our standart 76.2mm F42 gun even with the tungsten ammo.

In retrospect, this action showed us that the enemy is carefully probing for a weakness in our lines and aggressively pushing forward once it finds such openings.