4th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)
| 4th Mechanized Corps (1941 – Dec 1942) 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps (1942–1945) 3rd Guards Mechanized Division (c. 1946 – 1957) 47th Guards Motor Rifle Division (1957–1959) | |
|---|---|
| Active | 1941–1959 |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Branch | Armoured Forces |
| Type | Baltic Offensive Invasion of Manchuria |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Andrey Vlasov Vasily Volsky Viktor Obukhov |
The 4th
Operation Barbarossa
Initially formed in January 1941, it was serving with the
The second formation in 1942
The Corps was reformed for the second time in September 1942. It was commanded by General
On 20 November 1942, the Corps started feeding its initial units into the attack, between Lake Tsatsa and Barmatsak when the 126th and 302nd Rifle Divisions of 51st Army began to advance on a three-mile front supported by the 55th and 158th Independent Tank Regiments from 4th Mech Corps. The advance was made against the Romanian 6th Corps, whose units, Erickson says, began to surrender as the tanks got in among their positions.
The Corps's main attack opened late, further down the line, with three mechanised brigades hugging one road instead of the planned three, and the left-flank brigades, 36th and 59th, running into minefields. However the attack went on, until a pause at Zety on the evening on 21 November for fuel and ammunition. On the morning of 23 November, 4 Mechanised Corps linked up with 4th and 26th Tank Corps in the Sovietskii-Marinovka area and the northern and southern pincers had met. The German Sixth Army was surrounded in Stalingrad.
In December 1942 the Corps gained a
Post War
The Corps, which gained the honorific Stalingrad-Krivorozhskaya, became 3rd Guards Mechanised Division in November 1945, and later 47th Guards Motor Rifle Division in 1957. It was finally disbanded on 27 November 1959 while serving with
Commanders
- Major General of Tank Troops Mikhail Ivanovich Potapov (04.06.1940 – 17.01.1941),
- Major General Andrey Andreevich Vlasov(17.01.1941 – 07.1941),
- Major General of Tank Troops Georgy Rodin (18.09.1942 – 24.10.1942)
- Major-General of Tank Troops Vasily Volsky (24.10.1942 – 03.01.1943)
- Major General Alexey Pavlovich Sharagin (03.01.1943 – 03.05.1943), seriously wounded in May 1943, died of wounds 22.12.1943,
- Major General of Tank Troops, later Lieutenant General of Tank Troops Viktor Obukhov (04.05.1943 – end of the war)
See also
- Romanian Armies in the Battle of Stalingrad
Footnotes
- ).
Notes
- ^ Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, 1998, p. 155
- ^ [1] [permanent dead link]
- ^ Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, 1998, p. 145
- ^ Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, 1998, p. 229
- ^ Erickson, Road to Berlin, 1982, p. 213
- ^ "The Russian Battlefield".
- ^ "Soviet Far East Command, 09.08.45". niehorster.org.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, pp. 587–588
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 162
References
- ISBN 0-7006-0879-6
- ISBN 0-14-028458-3.
- Keith E. Bonn, Slaughterhouse: Handbook of the Eastern Front, Aberjona Press, Bedford, PA, 2005
- John Erickson (historian), Road to Stalingrad, Cassel (2003), p. 430 pp
- Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.
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