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Sassuntsi-Davit Tank Regiment
The 119th Separate Tank Regiment, popularly known as the Sassuntsi-Davit Tank Regiment ((アルメニア語:«Սասունցի Դավիթ» տանկային շարասյուն); ) was a decorated Soviet separate tank regiment during the Second World War, consisting primarily of ethnic Armenians. The unit was named after David of Sasun, the hero of the medieval Armenian national epic ''Daredevils of Sasun''.
== Formation ==
The regiment was formed in Echmiatsin, Armenian SSR in January 1943 and was funded entirely by diaspora Armenians living, among other countries, in Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the United States.〔 Sahakyan, Marat G. ''«Սասունցի Դավիթ»'' (Davit ). Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1984, vol. 10, p. 204.〕 Under the aegis of Archbishop Gevorg VI Chorekjian, $115,000 were raised in the United States; C$37,000 in Canada; £L185,000 in Lebanon; £Syr276,000 in Syria; £E14,000 in Egypt; and 2.5 million rials in Iran.〔Walker, Christopher J. ''Armenia: Survival of a Nation''. London: Routledge, 1990, p. 356.〕 The Armenian Apostolic Church itself donated gifts in the area totaling around 800,000 rubles, 1,000 British sterling, and 50,000 in Soviet rubles. Various fund raising committees were established, the first being on March 7, 1943, in New York City.
The funds were finally distributed under the auspices of the Armenian Apostolic Church residing in Echmiatsin which raised enough money to outfit the regiment with 21 tanks by February 1944. The regiment was initially equipped with the newer generation T-34-85 tanks, armed with the new D-5T 85mm cannons. In February 1944, on the 119th Tank Regiment's turrets were inscribed in Armenian letters "Sasuntsi Davit" (Սասունցի Դավիթ).〔
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