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Guards Tank Armies

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Tank Armies

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Tank Korps

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Mechanized Korps

1MK 2MK 3MK 5MK 7MK 8MK 9MK
 
Abbr.: A=Army, Ba=(Pri)Baltic, Btl=Batallion, Brig=Brigade, Bry=Bryansk, By=Byelorussian, Ce=Central, Fr=Front, G=Guards, H=Heavy, K=Korps, Kal=Kalinin, Len=Leningrad, M/Mech=Mechanized, MD=Military District, Mosc=Moscow, Mot=Motorized, Motcyc=Motorcycle, Reg=Regiment, Res=Reserve, Sh=Shock, So=Southern, Stp=Steppes, SU=Self-Propelled Artillery, Tk=Tank, TA=Tank Army, TrBaik=Trans-Baikal, Ukr=Ukrainian, Vor=Voronesh, We=Western

Results for: 2.Tank Army

Key Commander(s):

 Romanenko Rodin Bogdanov Radzievsky
Period Front Korps Tank
Brig.		 SU
Brig.		 Tank
Reg,		 SU
Reg.		 Motcyc
Reg,		 Motcyc
Btl.		 Motor
Btl.
1943-02-01-1943-02-28 Bryansk Front 16TK 51
1943-03-01-1943-03-31 Central Front 11TK, 16TK 11G 51
1943-04-01-1943-04-30 Central Front 11TK, 16TK 51
1943-05-01-1943-06-30 Central Front 3TK, 16TK 11G 51
1943-07-01-1943-07-31 Central Front 3TK, 16TK 11G 87
1943-08-01-1943-08-31 Central Front 3TK, 16TK 11G
1943-09-01-1943-09-30 Central Front 7GMK, 3TK, 16TK 11G 87
1943-10-01-1944-01-31 1st Ukranian Front 3TK, 16TK 11G 87
1944-02-01-1944-02-29 2nd Ukranian Front 3TK, 16TK 11G 87
1944-03-01-1944-03-31 2nd Ukranian Front 3TK, 16TK 11G 8,13G 754,1219 87
1944-04-01-1944-05-31 2nd Ukranian Front 3TK, 16TK 11G 8,13G 754,1219 87
1944-06-01-1944-06-30 2nd Ukranian Front 3TK, 16TK 11G 754,1219 87
1944-07-01-1944-07-31 1st Byelorussian Front 3TK, 16TK 11G 5 87
1944-08-01-1944-08-31 1st Byelorussian Front 8GTK, 3TK, 16TK 5 87
1944-09-01-1944-09-30 1st Byelorussian Front 3TK 5 87
1944-10-01-1944-10-31 Stavka Reserve 1MK, 3TK, 9TK 5 87
1944-11-01-1944-11-30 1st Byelorussian Front 1MK, 3TK, 9TK 5 87

Unit History

  • Formed as a Tank Army of combined composition, summer 1942
  • Stalingrad axis, July-Sep 1942
  • Reformed in RVGK, Jan. 1943
  • Tank army of unified composition, Apr. 1943
  • Kursk; lost over 300 tanks; only 36 combat ready, July 1943
  • Zhitomir Berdichev Op., Dec. 1943
  • Korsun Shevchenkovskiy Op., w/2 Ukrainian Front to mid-June, Jan. 1944
  • 24 Feb 1944 : 53 T-34 (out of 343 on paper), 25 IS-1 (out of 40 on paper), 16 Valentine IX (out of 30 on paper),
    32 SU-76/85/152 (out of 78 on paper)
  • 19 Mar 1944 : 9 T-34, 6 IS-1, 5 Valentine IX, 1 SU-76, 1 SU-85
  • 23 Mar 1944 : 17 T-34, 10 IS-1, 6 Valentine IX, 10 SU-76, 2 SU-85
  • Uman Botosani Op., Mar. 1944
  • Proskurov Chernovtsy Op., Mar. 1944
  • 5 Mar 1944 : 125 T-34, 33 IS-1, 16 Valentine IX, 5 SU-152, 9 SU-85, 43 SU-76
  • Dniester, south of Balta, (Ultra KV 332, 6 April 1944); had tank corps in the Jassy area, 29 Mar. 1944
  • 15 Apr 1944 : 30 T-34
  • Iasi River, Apr. 1944
  • 28 Apr 1944 : 80 T-34, 5 IS-1, 20 IS-2, 3 Valentine IX, 2 SU-76, 4 SU-85, 18 SU-152
  • 01 May 1944 : 75 T-34, 5 IS-1, 16 IS-2, 2 Valentine IX, 5 SU-85, 18 ISU-152
  • Targul Frumos, Rumania, 2-5 May 1944, badly handled by 'Grossdeutschland', 'Totenkopf' and 24.Pz.Div.
  • 03 May 1944 : 53 T-34, 3 IS-1, 9 IS-2, 3 Valentine IX, 5 SU-85, 19 ISU-152, total in capital repair: 188, write-offs: 9
  • 04 May 1944 : 26 T-34, 2 IS-1, 4 IS-2, 5 SU-85, 15 ISU-152
  • 05 May 1944 : 33 T-34, 3 IS-1, 5 IS-2, 2 Valentine IX, 3 SU-85, 5 ISU-152
  • 09 May 1944 : 28 T-34, 1 IS-1, 8 IS-2, 2 M4A2, 3 Valentine IX, 5 SU-85, 5 ISU-152
  • 21 May 1944 : 39 T-34, - IS-1, 8 IS-2, 2 M4A2, 2 Valentine IX, 4 SU-85, 7 ISU-152
  • Regrouped from Rumania to Belorussia, June 1944
  • Lublin Brest Op.; took Lublin, July 1944
  • 13 Jul 1944 : 426 T-34/85, 47 T-34/76, 42 IS-2, 140 M4A2, 10 Valentine IX, 63 SU-85, 63 SU-76, 19 SU-57, total: 810
  • Lvov Sandomir Op., July 1944
  • Praga (Warsaw), July 1944
  • Lost 'some 300 tanks' in Battle against 'Wiking' and 'Hermann Goering' near Warsaw, early Aug 1944
  • 8 Aug 1944 : 230 T-34, 21 IS-2, 67 M4A2, 7 Valentine IX, 31 SU-85, 35 SU-76, 15 SU-57, total: 406
  • 17 Aug 1944 : 253 T-34, 23 IS-2, 69 M4A2, 7 Valentine IX, 22 SU-85, 25 SU-76, 14 SU-57, total: 395
  • Destroyed 18-22 Aug,1944 : 12 Tiger, 56 Panther, 12 Ferdinand, 22 PzIV, 22 APC, 75 softskins
  • Warsaw area, Aug-Sep 1944
  • 28 Sep 1944 : 14 T-34, 21 IS-2, 79 M4A2, 20 Valentine IX, 63 ISU-122, 65 SU-85, 69 SU-76, 10 SU-57, total: 341
  • 18 Oct 1944 : 14 T-34, 21 IS-2, 175 M4A2, 10 Valentine IX, 63 ISU-122, 44 SU-85, 65 SU-76, 14 SU-57, total: 406
  • 3 Nov 1944 : 34 T-34, 43 IS-2, 175 M4A2, 30 Valentine IX, 42 ISU-122, 65 SU-85, 65 SU-76, 14 SU-57, total: 467
  • Designated Guards, 20 Nov. 1944
Sources : tankfront.ru, pamyat-naroda.ru, flamesofwar.com, War is over, Poirier-Conner, "RA OOB in the GPW", et al.

Surely not exhaustive, hence any further info or corrections welcome

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