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Guards Tank Armies

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Tank Armies

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Guards Tank Korps

1GTK 2GTK 3GTK 4GTK 5GTK 6GTK 7GTK 8GTK 9GTK 10GTK 11GTK 12GTK

Tank Korps

1TK 2TK 3TK 4TK 5TK 6TK 7TK 9TK 10TK 11TK 12TK 15TK 16TK 18TK 19TK 20TK 23TK 25TK 29TK 30TK 31TK
 

Guards Mechanized Korps

1GMK 2GMK 3GMK 4GMK 5GMK 6GMK 7GMK 8GMK 9GMK

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: 3.Guards Tank Army

Key Commander(s):

 Rybalko
Period Front Korps Tank
Brig.		 SU
Brig.		 Tank
Reg,		 SU
Reg.		 Motcyc
Reg,		 Motcyc
Btl.		 Motor
Btl.
1943-06-01-1943-06-30 Stavka Reserve 12TK, 15TK 91
1943-07-01-1943-07-31 Stavka Reserve 12TK, 15TK 91 50
1943-08-01-1943-08-31 Central Front 7GMK, 6GTK, 7GTK 91 50 87
1943-09-01-1943-09-30 Stavka Reserve 6GTK, 7GTK 91 1835,1836 50
1943-10-01-1943-10-31 Bryansk Front 9MK, 6GTK, 7GTK 91 1835,1836 50
1943-11-01-1943-12-31 1st Ukrainian Front 9MK, 6GTK, 7GTK 91 166 1835,1836 50
1944-01-01-1944-02-28 1st Ukrainian Front 9MK, 6GTK, 7GTK 91 166 1835,1836 50 39B
1944-03-01-1944-04-30 1st Ukrainian Front 9MK, 6GTK, 7GTK 91 50 39B
1944-05-01-1944-07-31 1st Ukrainian Front 9MK, 6GTK, 7GTK 91 71G 50 39B
1944-08-01-1944-09-30 1st Ukrainian Front 9MK, 6GTK, 7GTK 91 16 71G 50 39B
1944-10-01-1945-05-10 1st Ukrainian Front 9MK, 6GTK, 7GTK 16 57G 50 39B

Unit History

  • 3 Tank Army redesignated Guards, 5 June 1943.
  • Reformed near Plavsk w/unified composition, July 1943
  • Orel Op.; had 731 tanks, 700 guns/mortars, 40,000 men, July 1943
  • Had 308 T-34, 109 T-70, 1 T-60, 1 KV1s, 24 SU-122 and 10 SU-152 on Aug 04,1943
  • In repair : 136(!) T-34, 39 T-70, 5 SU-122 and 2 SU-152 on Aug 04,1943
  • Irrev.Write-offs : 74(!) T-34, 61 T-70 and 3 SU-122 on Aug 04,1943
  • Dnieper Op.; first to reach river w/40 Army, Oct. 1943
  • Kiev Op., Nov. 1943
  • Fastov, Nov. 1943
  • Zhitomir Berdichev Op., Dec. 1943
  • With 1 Ukrainian Front, Jan. 1944
  • Had 109 T-34, 16 T-70, 1 Valentine, - SU-76, 51 SU-85 and 8 SU-152 on Jan 08,1944
  • In repair : 196(!) T-34, 3 T-70, 16 Valentine and 17 SU-85 on Jan 08,1944
  • Irrev.Write-offs : 134(!) T-34, 15 T-70, 3 Valentine and 8 SU-85 on Jan 08,1944
  • Had 259 Tanks and 48 SU on Feb 24,1944
  • Broke through 4 Panzer Army at Shepetovka, Mar. 1944
  • Down to 35(!) T-34, 4(!) SU on Apr 01,1944
  • Had 293 T-34, 42 IS-2, 3 T-60, 3 T-70, 54 SU-76 and 32 SU-85 on Jul 01,1944
  • Lvov Sandomir Op., July 1944
  • Had 151 T-34, 23 IS-2, 3 T-70, 38 SU-76, 18 SU-85 and 1 KV on Aug 09,1944
  • Lost 238 Tanks, 86 SU(-76,-85,-57) and 41 APC, Aug 01-20,1944
  • Had 106 Tanks and 82 SU, on Aug 26,1944
  • Vistula Oder Op., Jan. 1945
  • Had 402 T-34, 21 IS-2, 35 SU-76, 48 SU-85 and 48 SU-57 on Jan 27,1945
  • Had 402 T-34, 44 SU-76, 44 SU-85, 40 ISU-122 and 48 SU-57 in service,
    62 T-34, 18 SU-76, 12 SU-85 and 13 ISU-122 in repair, on Feb 20,1945
  • Had 120 T-34/85, 14 IS-2, 44 SU-76, 28 SU-85, 14 ISU-122, 36 SU-57 and 11 T-34T(!) in service,
    86(!) T-34/85, 5 SU-76, 1 SU-85, 2 SU-57 and 2 T-34T in repair, on Mar 15,1945
  • Had 386 T-34/85, 23 IS-2, 46 SU-76, 22 SU-85, 41 SU-100, 40 ISU-122, 39 SU-57 and 9 T-34T(!) in service,
    34 T-34/85, 7 SU-85, 9 ISU-122 and 4 T-34T in repair, on Apr 15,1945
  • Had 335 T-34/85, 20 IS-2, 44 SU-76, 22 SU-85, 41 SU-100, 52 ISU-122, 39 SU-57 in service,
    40 T-34/85, 1 SU-76, 5 SU-85, 6 ISU-122 in repair, on Apr 20,1945
  • Had 217 T-34/85, 19 IS-2, 37 SU-76, 24 SU-85, 37 SU-100, 49 ISU-122, 33 SU-57 and 11 T-34T(!) in service,
    19 T-34/85, 2 IS-2, 2 SU-76, 4 SU-85, 4 SU-100, 2 ISU-122, -- SU-57 and -- T-34T in repair, on May 02,1945
  • Had 173 T-34/85, 13 IS-2, 30 SU-76, 8 SU-85, 31 SU-100, 27 ISU-122, 33 SU-57 in service,
    75 T-34/85, 7 IS-2, 3 SU-76, 14 SU-85, 6 SU-100, 18 ISU-122 in repair, on May 12,1945
  • Had 36 203mm B-4 (!), 60 152mm ML-20, 232 122mm A-19, 16 85mm 52-K, 72 37mm 61-K, 144 M[-12-]31 Rocket Launcher (!) in service, on May 03/10,1945
  • Destroyed/Captured 173/104 Tanks, 17/49 SPG, 277/202 Guns, 81/71 APC, 865/1174 Vehicles, from Apr 16-May 12,1945
  • Berlin Op., Apr. 1945
  • Took Zossen, Apr. 1945
  • Czechoslovakia, May 1945
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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