Tank Aces...

[Bennanteno]

We all have heard of the famous German tank aces. What about the great tankers of other nations? American, Russian, British, Italian, Romanian, etc...
Names of the "aces", nationalities, kills, etc would be appreciated.

 

[BlackLabel]

i think major.google might be a good start.

 

[aktionman]

Example list of Soviet tank aces: http://www.wio.ru/tank/ww2aces.htm

Top ace during the Barbarossa campaign (!) with 50+ kills:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitriy_Lavrinenko

 

[Klaus]

Not exactly a tank ace, but nice trick nevertheless.. In the war of 1973 in Israel, an Israeli tank battalion consisting of 177 tanks (Centurion tanks) were to defend a hillish area. They were attacked by 1400 Syrian T55, some airforce and dozens of AT infantry solders.
In the first day of fighting, most Israeli tanks were destroyed, leaving merely 30 tanks standing.
The Commander of the battalion used sort of a cheap trick, faking communications as if he had hundreds of tanks and hundreds were coming. The rest of the tanks were firing, retreating and firing again giving the illusion there are far more tanks then those 30. This result much disorientation among the Syrians who believed there is a far superior force up there waiting for them. Which resulted hundreds of Syrian tanks destroyed by the surviving Israeli tanks (They lost over 500).