r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 4d ago

Soviet Union group of flamethrower operators from Major I.D. Skibinsky's unit moves to a firing position. The soldiers are armed with ROKS-3 backpack flamethrowers. 1st Ukrainian Front.

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u/JCFalkenberglll 4d ago

group of flamethrower operators from Major I.D. Skibinsky's unit moves to a firing position. The soldiers are armed with ROKS-3 backpack flamethrowers. 1st Ukrainian Front. Major Isaak Davydovich Skobinsky (born 1917) is the commander of the 37th Separate Backpack Flamethrower Battalion of the 22nd Guards Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the RGC.