WOMEN TANK DRIVERS

[Joe Andrew]

Dear SEELANGERS

I've received the following interesting message from a former student - 
can anyone help?  

Please reply either direct to Claire, at InterpretationAsst at tankmuseum.org
or to me, whichever suits!

Best

Joe


Dear Professor Andrew,

 

I am a past student from Keele University and studied Russian Literature 
in my final year (2003).  I now hold a research post at the Tank Museum in 
Bovington, Dorset and have a rather unusual query that I am hoping you can 
help me with.

 

We are currently re-developing our exhibitions as part of a lottery 
project and we want to place an emphasis on the human stories behind the 
vehicles in our collection, looking at the individuals that designed, 
built or crewed them.  

 

We have a large Russian collection and I am very keen to obtain first hand 
accounts of Russian women who built or crewed tanks, especially during 
WWII.  Russia is the only nation to have ever used women in tanks on the 
front line and it is a side of the story that I feel our audiences would 
find very interesting and quite unique.

 

I am struggling to establish if such accounts exist and I wondered if you 
may be able to advise me on my next step.  I understand that this may not 
be relevant to any research that you have done but if you have any 
thoughts on how I might be able to obtain written or audio accounts or who 
I could approach for further assistance, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Many thanks, I look forward to hearing from you soon.

 

Kind regards,

 

Claire Newby

Interpretation Assistant

Bovington Tank Museum

 
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Joe Andrew
j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk

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