9th Guards Motor Rifle Division
22nd Tank Corps (1942) 5th Mechanized Corps (1942–1944) 9th Guards Mechanized Corps (1944–1945) 9th Guards Mechanized Division (1945–1957) 9th Guards Motor Rifle Division (1957–1958) | |
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The 9th Guards Motor Rifle Division was a Soviet Army unit initially formed as a tank corps in April 1942. In the same year, it was then formed as a
History
World War II
The unit formed as the 22nd Tank Corps on 3 April 1942 and was subordinated to the
The corps was in combat near Kalach in 1942,
The 9th Guards Mechanized Corps was notable for its use of U.S. Lend-Lease M4A2-76 diesel-engined Sherman tanks during 1944-45.[6]
Postwar
In October 1945, the corps, like all Soviet mechanized corps, was reorganized into a division, the 9th Guards Mechanized Division. It was stationed at Yasnaya, part of the Transbaikal Military District's 6th Guards Tank Army.[7] The division included the 18th, 30th, and 31st Guards Mechanized Regiments, and the 46th and 111th Guards Tank Regiments.[1] On 4 June 1957, the division became the 9th Guards Motor Rifle Division at Sainshand, Mongolia.[8] The division was disbanded on 1 November 1958.[9]
References
- ^ a b Feskov et al 2013, p. 207.
- ^ Glantz (Companion), p. 89 and 93.
- ^ Erickson, p. 369.
- ^ Glantz (Companion), p. 93.
- ^ Poirier, p. 105, 126, and 146.
- ^ "english.iremember.ru". Archived from the original on 10 February 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 485.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 204.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 162.
- Erickson, John. The Road to Stalingrad, Yale University Press, 1995
- 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.
- Glantz, David, Companion to Colossus Reborn, University Press of Kansas, 2005.
- Poirier, Robert G., and Conner, Albert Z., The Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War, Presidio Press, 1985.