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Guards Tank Armies

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Tank Armies

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Guards Tank Korps

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Tank Korps

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Guards Mechanized 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: 6.Tank Army

Key Commander(s):

 Kravchenko
Period Front Korps Tank
Brig.		 SU
Brig.		 Tank
Reg,		 SU
Reg.		 Motcyc
Reg,		 Motcyc
Btl.		 Motor
Btl.
1944-02-01-1944-02-29 1st Ukrainian Front 5MK, 5GTK 156
1944-03-01-1944-03-31 2nd Ukrainian Front 5MK, 5GTK 156 697
1944-04-01-1944-05-31 2nd Ukrainian Front 5MK, 5GTK 156
1944-06-01-1944-06-30 2nd Ukrainian Front 5MK, 5GTK 156 1494
1944-07-01-1944-08-31 2nd Ukrainian Front 5MK, 5GTK 156 4
1944-09-01-1944-09-11 2nd Ukrainian Front 5MK, 5GTK, 18TK 49G,156 364G 4

Unit History

  • Formed as a tank army of unified composition in the RVGK on basis of 5 Mechanized and 5 Guards Tank Corps, Jan. 1944
  • Korsun Shevchenkovskiy Op., Jan. 1944
  • Uman Botosani Op. w/2 Ukrainian Front, Mar. 1944
  • 5 Mar 1944: 21 T-34, 93 M4A2/Val.IX, 6 T-70, 1 T-80, 2 SU-152, 5 SU-85, 25 SU-76
  • Jassy area (Ultra), 29 Mar. 1944
  • 1 May 1944: 7 T-34, 4 M4A2, 3 Valentine IX, 5 SU-85, 1 SU-76
  • Targul Frumos, May 1944, badly handled by 'Grossdeutschland', 'Totenkopf' and 24.Pz.Div.
  • Rumania, June 1944
  • 16 Jun 1944: 25 T-34, 14 M4A2, 8 Valentine IX, 9 SU-85
  • 30 Jun 1944: 118 T-34, 22 M4A2, 7 T-70, 3 T-60, 16 Valentine IX, 12 SU-85
  • Aug 01 1944 : 152 T-34, 27 M4A2, 4 T-60, 17 T-70, 53 Val.IX, 7 Matilda, 9 SU-85, 10 SU-76, 5 SU-152, 1 SU-122
  • Iasi Kishinev Op.; had 398 tanks, 153 SP guns, Aug. 1944
  • Captured Bucharest and Ploesti, Aug. 1944
  • Designated Guards, 12 Sep. 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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