She was buried in Lobez, Poland, near the monument to William I. One source reports that Samusenko died during the Soviet assault of Berlin (not verified), while another says that she died after a Soviet tank became lost in the dark and crushed her under its tracks.Īccording to World War II veteran Pyotr Demidov, she was crushed under the caterpillar tracks of a tank, which did not notice the accompanying people in the darkness. Samusenko died from wounds in the German village of Zülzefirz (70 km from Berlin), during the East Pomeranian Offensive. She would serve as a tank commander throughout 19. When her battalion commander fell in a later battle, Samusenko took charge and led her forces out of an ambush. As the only female tank officer in the 1st Guards Tank Army, Samusenko performed heroically during the Battle of Kursk, earning the Order of the Red Star. Her true fame came in the last years of World War II.
After successfully finishing the tank academy, Samusenko received her Order of the Red Star when her tank crew defeated three German Tiger I tanks. Aleksandra Samusenko, Battle of Kursk, 1943.Īleksandra Samusenko, born in 1922, was a member of the Soviet armed forces who fought during the Winter War in Finland and during the Great Patriotic War.
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