26th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)

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26th Mechanized Corps
Active1941
Country
Mechanized corps
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Nikolai Kirichenko

The 26th Mechanized Corps (Military Unit Number 7476) was a Mechanized corps of the Red Army.[1] The mechanized corps of the Red Army were reorganized after Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The corps was reorganized and disbanded before it saw action.

History

Formation

A destroyed T-26 of the type used by the corps

The 26th Mechanized Corps was formed in March 1941 in the

T-40 amphibious tanks.[1]

World War II

On 22 June,

19th Rifle Division, and the 444th Rifle Regiment, with artillery units, were ordered to become part of the rifle corps. The order was countermanded the next day and the rifle corps was never created.[1]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Drig, Yevgeny (12 April 2007). "26 механизированный корпус" [26th Mechanized Corps]. mechcorps.rkka.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2009-02-04. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  2. ^ Дриг Евгений. Механизированные корпуса РККА в бою: история автобронетанковых войск Красной Армии в 1940—1941 гг. — М.: АСТ: Транзиткнига, 2005.
  3. ^ Glantz 2010, p. 59.
  4. ^ Glantz 2010, pp. 48–51.
  5. ^ Glantz 2010, p. 57.
  6. ^ Glantz 2010, p. 190n50.
  7. ^ Glantz 2010, p. 593.

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