Главное - выбить у них танки! "Я дрался с "Тиграми"

"The trunk is long, life is short", "Double salary - triple death", "Farewell, Motherland!" - all these are front-line nicknames for gunners of 45, 57 and 76 mm caliber guns, which were put on direct fire immediately behind, or even ahead of the infantry orders. It was they who were entrusted with the deadly task of knocking out German tanks. Every battle, every wrecked tank was given in blood, every change of position - then. Victory in a duel with the Nazi tank aces required colossal endurance, courage and skill. And until the very end of the war, the Panzerwaffe, including the formidable Tigers, suffered the heaviest losses not in duels with Soviet tankers, but from the fire of our artillery. "The MAIN THING IS TO KNOCK THE TANKS FROM THEM!" - this catchphrase from "Hot Snow" has become a universal formula for Victory.