Sutjeska - Breakthrough scene, Tanks

Historical background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sutjeska

Movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070758/

The final breakthrough scene from the movie, Richard Burton as Tito, for a short moment you can see an actor representing Sir William Deakin who was deployed with partisans to be a military observer and liaison officer. Later he wrote a book Embattled Mountain that describes in details the events that took place during the Axis operation Fall Schwarz, interesting detail from that book that he witnessed is depicted in the move and in the clip. Altough the movie is just a dramatization of the event. Deakin wrote that a patrol of light German tanks ran across the main body of partisans that were pulling out of the encirclement, the previous orders given to all units and ordered directly by Tito were to drop and hide all heavy weapons thus enabling higher mobility of units. However, some commanders disregarded the order as well as some individual soldiers and they kept light mortars and antitank rifles. As Deakin wrote a young partisan soldier kept and carried an antitank rifle that he captured from Italian soldiers that his unit fought in previous battles, it was Solothurn S-18/1000, he had only 3 bullets for it and with those 3 bullets he destroyed 3 German light tanks, as Deakin wrote in his book the smoking and flaming tanks on the road brought smiles on their faces and boosted moral of partisans. Deliberate disobedience in regard to heavy weapons proved crucial for easier breakthrough through positions of the German 118th and 104th Jäger and 369th (Croatian) Infantry divisions.

Again as in The Battle of Neretva movie it is possible to see T-34 tanks and few modified T-34 tanks that resemble German tanks of the WW2 era.

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[TheFilipp93]

is this a yugoslav movie?

[freedomliberator]

@TheFilipp93 yup.

[040392agh]

you dont kill 3 tigers with that peashoter

[aylmer666]

I didn't realize that the Germans employed T-62's during the Balkan campaign, but it still certainly beats M-48's or Shermans as you'd see in an American ww2 movie.

[MultiTifus]

Ajmooo braćo tifusari..preko vode do slobode!

[diablo275754867862]

preko vode do slobode