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: Another interesting and largely unknown
: page in the history of the Stalingrad
: battle is the first combat usage of
: British Lend Lease Churchill tanks on
: the Eastern Front. The first two units
: to be equipped with these tanks, the
: 47th and 48th Independent Guards Tank
: regiments of 21 tanks each, took an
: active role during Operation
: "Koltso"(Ring) -- the
: destruction of the encircled 6th Army
: at Stalingrad from January 10 to
: February 2, 1943.
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