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Unique ID: 412 Added to Database: July 2008 Last Edited: 7 April 2012 Type (ID): IS-2 (2800) Model (ID): Model 1943 (2802) Location Category (ID): Muzeum Wojska Polskiego (16010) Location (ID): Display Park (16012) Serial Number: Registration: Name: Other Identification: “0247” and Polish People’s Army (PPA) Eagle marking previously painted on turret sides. Collection Reference: MWP 32522. Links: References: Associated Tanks: Location History: (see map) 1: Chelyabinskiy Traktornyy Zavod (ChTZ), Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ekaterinburg and Surrounding Regions, Russia (Sole manufacturer) 2: Muzeum Wojska Polskiego, Powiśle, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland (Current location) Text in original Preserved Soviet Tanks publication: A relatively rare early production model IS-2 without post-war modifications. It has the more unusual machined pattern glacis. Text in Preserved Soviet Tanks Update: [No entry] Text in original Preserved Tanks In Poland publication: The label for this IS-2 reads: “The IS-2 tanks composed the combat equipment of the 4th and 5th Heavy Tank Regiments assigned respectively to the 1st and 2nd Polish Armies of General Berling’s Force. The regiments and their tanks saw battle only in the waning months of WWII. The Polish forces under Russian control received 71 IS-2 heavy tanks in the period of October 1944 – April 1945. After the war’s end the tanks remained in service through the end of 1950s. The tank in display was used during WWII by the 4th Heavy Tank Regiment of the 1st Polish Army.”

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August 2007 1: Front right view Taken: 10 August 2007 Contributor: R. Gucwa Photo ID: 359 Added: 19 July 2008 Filename: PICT5537... Views: 209 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		2: Exhibit label Taken: 10 August 2007 Contributor: R. Gucwa Photo ID: 358 Added: 19 July 2008 Filename: PICT5536... Views: 136 Select/Has Priority: 21/0

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